Workshop on the Challenges of Engineering Multimodal Interaction: Methods, Tools, Evaluation

Wednesday 13 May 2009
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology

Sankt Augustin (Bonn), Germany

Important deadlines:

Paper submission: 1st May 2009
Notification to authors: 4th May 2009

Workshop date: 13th May 2009

Complete Call for Participation here

The exhibition at ICT 2008, Europe’s biggest research event for information and communication technologies, focuses on the OpenInterface framework. Our exhibit demonstrates the power and benefits of the OI framework by considering a simple and engaging interactive application: a multi-display and muti-user breakout game. The exhibit highlights the variety of interaction modalities handled by the OI framework that the visitors experience while playing the game. The large set of supported commercial devices (e.g., iPhone, Wiimote, DiamondTouch) enables the visitors to get their hands on interaction techniques they did not have the chance to try so far. Moreover the more innovative interaction modalities managed by the OI framework allow the visitors to get a glimpse on the interaction of tomorrow.

The same exhibition is included in the program of the national days for science in France, “Fête de la science”. Exhibition downtown Grenoble.

ETSI, in collaboration with the OpenInterface Project (European project FP6-35182), is pleased to invite you to a workshop on Standardization of Multimodal Interaction on Mobile Devices, to be held at ETSI Headquarters, in Sophia Antipolis, France, on the 18th and 19th of November 2008.

Multimodal interaction on mobile devices allows the users to interact using different and combined interaction modalities such as 3D gesture, speech commands, tactile and sound feedback, pressing buttons. There is a high potential for new interaction modalities and multimodal interaction on mobile devices since it enables the user to access functions on the mobile devices while walking (on the move) as well as it allows the user to choose the modalities according to her/his changing context of use (running in the street, sitting in a noisy environment, etc).

Based on current and future mobile technologies, the workshop will cover all aspects of multimodal interaction on mobile devices including new interaction techniques, design activities, development aspects and evaluation issues.

It will aim to address subjects with a potential for future standardization at ETSI. An overview of already existing work on standardization will start the workshop in order to avoid duplication and fragmentation of the work.

You’ll find all details about this Workshop at http://www.etsi.org/MobileMultimodal and also in the document attached below.

About ETSI: ETSI produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, broadcast and internet technologies and is officially recognized by the European Commission as a European Standards Organisation. The high quality of ETSI’s work and open approach to standardisation has helped it evolve into a "European roots - global branches" operation with a solid reputation for technical excellence. ETSI is a not-for-profit organisation whose 700 member organisations benefit from direct participation and are drawn from 60 countries worldwide. For more information, please visit: www.etsi.org

The demonstration of the OpenInterface framework at ICMI 2008, the 10th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces conference, focuses on generic and tailored OI components. The application is a slide viewer, using the Wiimote and the SHAKE sensor device.

As part of DSV-IS 2008 (http://www.cs.queensu.ca/dsvis2008/), the OpenInterface STREP project organized a dinner session for playing and testing the OI open source framework as well as receiving community comments and suggestions. This workshop took place on July 16th 2008, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

All details about contents and registration are available in the attached document.

The OpenInterface project has been presented at the UBIMOB 2008 conference, the 4th French-speaking conference on Mobility and Ubiquity Computing conference. The OI framework has also been demonstrated showing how to easily change interaction modalities using the OIDE. The application used for the demonstration is a slide viewer.

The OpenInterface framework has been demonstrated at the UIST 2007 conference, the 20th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and technology. The demonstration illustrated the usage of the framework and in particular the OIDE for exploring various design solutions in terms of interaction modalities for navigating in Google Earth. One example of modality is based on the SHAKE sensor device. The demonstration also focused on the generic debugging and monitoring OI components to aid the designers in assembling and testing an application.