Multimodal Interaction Working Group Face to Face Meeting

The W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group held a face to face
meeting in Saarbrücken, Germany, at DFKI [1] June 11-13, which
included a joint meeting with the Voice Browser WG [2] on June 11. We
thank DFKI for their hospitality in hosting this face-to-face meeting,
including a very interesting overview presentation about DFKI and
demos of their work.

During the joint meeting with the Voice Browser WG we discussed how
voice modality components could be designed and incorporated into
multimodal applications by using properties from VoiceXML. We also saw
demos from Torbjörn Lager of Göteborg University on his applications
of SCXML [3].

Our main discussion points in the MMI meeting were the MMI
architecture and MMI authoring. We approved publication of a new Note
describing an example of authoring of an MMI application within the
MMI Architecture using VoiceXML, CCXML, and XHTML. This Note was
published July 2 [4].

In preparation for the next draft of the MMI Architecture and
Interfaces specification [5], we also discussed error handling, media
handling, and registration of modality components.  We also had a very
informative presentation from Masahiro Araki of the Kyoto Institute of
Technology on his work on multimodal architectures.

We had a presentation from the Emotion Incubator Group [6] on their work
and discussed whether it would make sense for that work to continue on
Recommendation Track documents as part of the MMIWG. The WG is
continuing discussions on this topic.

The editor's draft of the InkML [7] CR spec is close to completion. When
this is published we will be requesting implementers of InkML to
submit implementation reports.

Our next face-to-face meeting is scheduled for October 20-21 at the
Pullman Cannes Mandelieu Royal Hotel in France as part of the W3C
Technical Plenary meeting [8].

For more information on the activities of the W3C Multimodal
Interaction Working Group, please see our home page [9].

best regards,

Deborah Dahl
W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair

[1] DFKI http://www.dfki.de/web
[2] Voice Browser Working Group http://www.w3.org/Voice/
[3] SCXML http://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/
[4] MMI Authoring Note: http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-auth/
[5] MMI Architecture and Interfaces http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/
[6] Emotion Incubator Group http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/emotion/
[7] InkML http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ink
[8] W3C Technical Plenary http://www.w3.org/2008/10/TPAC/Overview.html
[9] MMI Working Group http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

Received on Thursday, 17 July 2008 19:54:33 UTC