Enabling the mobile web through auto-generating multimodal web pages
Khaled Khankan, Robert JC Steele · 2005
Abstract:- Multimodal interaction refers to interactions involving a combination of voice, text, stylus etc. Such multimodal interaction can provide advantages for mobile device input/output given the limitations of mobile device keypads and screens and the limits on user’s availability to use such traditional inputs and outputs while mobile. One important resource that can be accessed from mobile devices is the World Wide Web, but Web pages, as they are visual and may require typed input, may not be readily suited to mobile device access. While there are technology initiatives addressing the authoring of new Web pages that are multimodal-enabled, the generating of multimodal versions of existing Web pages has not been addressed. To help address this problem, we propose in this paper an architecture and approach to auto-generating multimodal representations of existing Web pages, thereby helping to enable the Mobile Web.