Call for Participation: Workshop on using Ink in Multimodal Applications

Advances in touch and pen input, spoken input, increasingly
powerful mobile devices, and faster networks are making possible
an unprecedented variety of groundbreaking ways of interacting
with the World Wide Web. Within the World Wide Web Consortium, 
the Multimodal Interaction Working Group is developing the 
underlying standards that support these new applications. 

You are invited to participate in a Workshop that will 
gather new ideas about integrating pen input into multimodal
applications. 

The Workshop on using Ink in Multimodal Applications within the W3C's 
Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces will take place on 10-11 July 2009 
in Grand Bend, Ontario (Canada), hosted by the University 
of Western Ontario. The workshop is included in a set of
of colocated Conferences on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
http://www.orcca.on.ca/conferences/cicm09/cicm09/.

Complete information about the workshop can be found in the
Call for Participation. http://www.w3.org/2009/03/ink/cfp.html
It is not necessary to belong to the W3C to participate and
there is no registration fee.

The goal of the Workshop is to help the Multimodal Interaction 
Working Group integrate handwriting or pen modality components 
(Ink Modality Components) into the MMI Architecture and clarify 
what should be added to the Multimodal specifications to enable 
applications to adapt to various modality combinations including Ink. 
Attendees will discuss requirements for changes, extensions 
and additions to Ink standards especially in Multimodal 
Applications developed based on the W3C's MMI Architecture as 
a means of making InkML more useful in current and emerging markets. 
Position papers are due 1 June 2009. 

More about the Ink Markup Language (InkML) 
http://www.w3.org/TR/InkML/ and W3C's Multimodal Interaction Activity
http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/

best regards,

Debbie Dahl
W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair
for the Multimodal Interaction Working Group

Received on Friday, 8 May 2009 13:33:33 UTC