call for chapters for book standards-based interfaces

Here is a call for chapters for an upcoming book that may be of interest 
to people on this list:

Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards: Towards Natural User 
Interfaces to Everything

Editor: Deborah A. Dahl, Conversational Technologies

to be published by Springer

Call for Chapters

 From tiny fitness trackers to huge industrial robots, we are 
interacting today with devices with shapes, sizes, and capabilities that 
would have been hard to imagine when the traditional graphical user 
interface (GUI) first became popular in the 1980’s. It is becoming 
increasingly apparent that the decades-old GUI interface is a poor fit 
for today’s computer-human interactions, as we move farther and farther 
away from the classic desktop paradigm, with input limited to mouse and 
keyboard and a large screen as the only output modality. While the 
growth of touch interfaces has been especially dramatic, we are now also 
starting to see applications that make use of many other forms of 
interaction, including voice, handwriting, emotion recognition, natural 
language understanding, and object recognition.

As these forms of interaction (modalities) are combined into systems, 
the importance of having standard means for them to communicate with 
each other and with application logic is apparent. The sheer variety and 
complexity of multimodal technologies makes it impractical for 
implementers other than very large organizations to handle the full 
range of possible modalities (current and future) with proprietary API's.

To address this need, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has developed 
a comprehensive set of standards for multimodal interaction which are 
well-suited as the basis of interoperable multimodal applications. 
However, most of the information about these standards is currently 
available only in the formal standards documents, conference 
presentations, and a few academic journal papers. All of these can be 
hard to find, and are not very accessible to most technologists. In 
addition, papers on applications that use the standards are similarly 
scattered among many different resources.

This book will address this gap with clearly-presented overviews of the 
full suite of W3C multimodal standards. In addition, to illustrate the 
standards in use, it will also include case studies of a number of 
applications that use the standards. Finally, a future directions 
section will discuss new ideas for other standards as well as new 
applications.

We invite submissions of potential chapters to be included in this book.

Topics of Interest

A. Overviews of the following standards:

1. Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces -- building applications from 
multiple modalities

2. Discovery and Registration – finding and integrating components into 
dynamic systems

3. EMMA: Extensible Multimodal Annotation—representing user inputs from 
speech recognition, natural language understanding, handwriting 
recognition, gesture, and camera.

4. InkML: Ink Markup Language – representing drawings and handwriting 
with “electronic ink”

5. EmotionML: Emotion Markup Language – representing human emotions

6. Creating an MMI Architecture-compliant modality component: Modality 
Component design best practices

(see http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ for the standards documents for items 1-6)

7. Voice Standards: Handling speech: VoiceXML, SSML, SRGS, SISR, PLS

8. SCXML: State Chart XML—declarative handling of events with a state 
machine

(see http://www.w3.org/Voice/ for the standards documents for items 7-8)

9. WebRTC: Web Real Time Communications: handling media on the web

(see http://www.w3.org/2011/04/webrtc/ for the standards documents for 
item 9)

B. Applications using the W3C standards for multimodal interaction 
(Types of applications include – but are not limited to – the following):

1. Applications that make use of the standards listed above in 
multimodal applications.

2. Implementations of the standards, including but not limited to open 
source implementations.

3. Evaluations of systems using the standards, including 
interoperability testing

C. Future directions:

1. chapters concerning the evolution of multimodal standards

2. where new standards are needed

3. integration with related standards.

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a 1-3 page chapter 
abstract clearly explaining the topic of the proposed chapter. This 
helps as a chapter registration for the final submission. Chapter 
registrations are intended to help detecting and avoiding duplicate or 
similar chapters in advance.

Submission of abstracts must be done through the EasyChair system, with 
the link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmistandards2015

Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified about the status of their 
abstracts and will be sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters must be 
submitted by March 25, 2016 through EasyChair.

The chapter should not exceed 25 pages with respect to Springer format 
(guidelines will be supplied).

All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a single-blind review basis. 
Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit 
www.springer.com <http://www.springer.com>.

Schedule

Abstract Submission: September 18, 2015

Abstract feedback: October 2, 2015

Full Chapters Due: January 15, 2016

Chapter Acceptance Notification and feedback: February 26, 2016

Revised Version Due Date: March 25, 2016

Final Notification: May 6, 2016

Estimated Publication Date: October, 2016

More information –http://www.mmi-standards.com 
<http://www.mmi-standards.com>