Multimodal human computer interaction and pervasive services

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Grifoni, Patrizia, 1959-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Human-computer interaction.; Interactive multimedia.; Ubiquitous computing.; Ambiguity management in multimodal systems; Analyzing multimodal interaction; Mobile virtual blackboard; Multimodal human computer interaction; Multimodal input fusion strategies; Multimodal language processor; Multimodal user interface; Pervasive services; Technology acceptance models; Usability evaluation of multimodal interfaces; Web accessiblity to the visually impaired
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The use of multimodality combined with mobile devices allows a simple, intuitive communication approach and generates new and pervasive services for users. This book provides theoretical and practical concepts, methodologies, and applications used to design and develop multimodal systems. Collecting...

Table of Contents:

• A qualitative study of the applicability of technology acceptance models to senior mobile phone users / Judy van Biljon, Karen Renaud
• Analyzing multimodal interaction / Fernando Ferri, Stefano Paolozzi
• Exploring multimodal input fusion strategies / Arianna D'Ulizia
• An efficient unification-based multimodal language processor for multimodal input fusion / Fang Chen, Yong Sun
• Interpretation methods and ambiguity management in multimodal systems / Maria Caschera
• Multimodal fission / Patrizia Grifoni
• Machine learning enhancing adaptivity of multimodal mobile systems / Floriana Esposito ... [et al.]
• Model-based design for multimodal interaction in a VE / Karin Coninx ... [et al.]
• Temporal and spatial aspects of pointing gestures / Christian Müller-Tomfelde, Fang Chen
• Speech and gaze control for desktop environments / Emiliano Castellina, Fulvio Corno, Paolo Pellegrino
• Multimodality and environment semantics / Fabio Pittarello, Augusto Cementano
• An ontology supporting an on-board vehicle multimodal interaction system / Domenico Pisanelli ... [et al.]
• Designing pervasive and multimodal interactive systems : an approach built on the field / Barbara Barricelli ... [et al.]
• Making the Web accessible to the visually impaired / Simone Bacellar Leal Ferriera
• Designing contextualized interaction for learning / Marcus Specht
• Speech driven interaction in mobile multimodality / Giovanni Frattini ... [et al.]
• Providing mobile multimodal social services using a grid architecture / Stefania Pierno ... [et al.]
• Benefits challenges, and research in multimodal mobile GIS / Julie Doyle, Michela Bertolotto, David Wilson
• Adapted multimodal end-user interfaces for XML-content / Benoît Encelle, Nadine Baptiste-Jessel, Florence Sèdes
• Mobile virtual blackboard as multimodal user interface / Sladjana Tesanovic, Danco Davcev, Vladimir Trajkovik
• Mobile devices to support advanced forms of E-learning / Alessia D'Andrea ... [et al.]
• Standards for multimodal interaction / Deborah Dahl
• Visualising interactions on mobile multimodal systems / Kristine Deray, Simeon Simoff
• Usability evaluation of multimodal interfaces / Regina Bernhaupt.