Summary of the W3C Workshop on Get Smart: Smart Homes, Cars, Devices and the Web

The W3C held a workshop July 22-23, 2013 in Weehawken, N.J. (just outside of
New York City) on Rich Multimodal Application Development. Seventeen
position papers were submitted from a wide variety of industries, and there
were 26 registered participants. There were 18 presentations spread over the
two days of the workshop. 

The workshop is summarized below. 
Please feel free to comment and ask questions about the workshop on this
list.

best regards,
Debbie Dahl
W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group Chair

Executive Summary

Ease of user-interaction (user experience) with applications has become a
prime focus world-wide, thanks to the proliferation of new devices and
platforms including mobile phones, tablet devices, eBook readers, and gaming
platforms. In addition, traditional platforms such as TV's, audio systems,
and automobiles are rapidly becoming capable of much more intelligent
interaction than in the past. 

User-interaction through speech, touch, gesture and swipe has become the key
differentiator in the success of popular applications today. One of the key
advantages of the W3C Multimodal Architecture (MMI) is its suitability for
simple to sophisticated applications across devices in creating compelling
user experiences, leveraging advances in i/o methodologies, and supporting
inter-operability among multiple vendors' products. 

This workshop was aimed at accentuating the merits of HTML5 and the W3C
Multimodal Architecture to help create the appropriate level of awareness of
the maturity of the MMI Architecture and its suitability for developing
innovative and compelling user-experiences across applications/devices. 

Please see http://www.w3.org/2013/07/mmi/summary.php for details.

Received on Tuesday, 27 August 2013 18:00:22 UTC