Rapid Prototyping of Multimodal Interactive Applications Based on Off-The-Shelf Heterogeneous Components
Jean-Yves Lionel Lawson, Jean M. Vanderdonckt, Benoit M. M. Macq · Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) · 2008
OpenInterface Kernel is a lightweight open-source plat-form designed for supporting the effective prototyping of multimodal interactive systems. Iterative design of such applications requires the easy integration, replacement, interconnection or upgrade of components. OpenInterface provides a thin integration platform able to manage these key elements with little programming knowledge, and thus provide the research community a tool to fill the gap in the current support for multimodal applications implementation. The platform offers non-intrusive tools and techniques to assemble various modalities developed with different implementation technologies, while keeping a high level of performance of the integrated system.