Dialog modeling for multiple devices and multiple interaction modalities

Abstract

Today a large variety of mobile interaction devices such as PDAs and mobile phones enforce the development of a wide range of user interfaces for each platform. The complexity even grows, when multiple interaction devices are used to perform the same task and when different modalities have to be supported. We introduce a new dialog model for the abstraction of concrete user interfaces with a separate advanced control layer for the integration of different modalities. In this context, we present the Dialog and Interface Specification Language (DISL), which comes with a proof-of-concept implementation. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.