Multimodal Architecture Interoperability Note

I am pleased to announce that the Multimodal Interaction Working Group has
published the First Public Working Group Note of a report on
interoperability testing of the Multimodal Architecture.
This document describes an interoperability test, executed by Working Group
participants from Openstream, Deutsche Telekom, and France Telecom, that
demonstrates interoperability of three multimodal components (speech,
graphics and interaction management) implementing the "Multimodal
Architecture and Interfaces" [MMI-ARCH] specification.
The key principles of the Multimodal Architecture are to treat Modality
Components as 'black-boxes', making no assumptions about their internal
implementation and allowing them to communicate solely through a standard
set of life-cycle events, with user inputs represented in EMMA [EMMA]. The
architecture supports extension of functionality through extension-events,
but requires that modality components do not communicate directly with each
other, but only through the Interaction Manager. This architecture promotes
interoperability, reusability, and extensibility to new modalities. 
The three components are documented in detail using the guidelines proposed
in [MMI-MCBP]. 

Document title
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MMI interoperability test report

Document URI
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http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-interop/

Instructions for providing feedback
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Comments for this note are welcomed and should have a subject
starting with the prefix '[ARCH]'.  Please send them to
<www-multimodal@w3.org>, the public email list for issues related to
Multimodal.

Best regards,

Debbie Dahl
Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair

[MMI-ARCH] Jim Barnett. Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces. 12 January
2012. W3C Candidate Recommendation. URL:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-mmi-arch-20120112
[MMI-MCBP]. Ingmar Kliche. Best practices for creating MMI Modality
Components. 1 March 2011. W3C Note. URL:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-mmi-mcbp-20110301
[EMMA]Michael Johnston. EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup
language. 10 February 2009. W3C Recommendation. URL:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-emma-20090210

Received on Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:54:32 UTC