The MAUl Project: Building MultiModal Affective User Interfaces for Everyone
Christine Lisetti, Cynthia LeRouge, Fatma Nasoz · 2002
We address some of the current challenges in intelli-gent interfaces for universal access and present the de-sign of an intelligent interface which is aimed at 1) input processing the user’s sensory modalities (or modes) via various media, 2) building (or encoding) a model of user’s emotions (MOUE) and 3) adapting its multime-dia output to provide the user with an easier and more natural technology access and interaction. We identify key research issues relating to one particularly rich ap-phcation of MOUE, namely home health care provided via telemedieine. Home Health Care In 1995, there were approximately 1.5 million patients re-ceiving nursing services in their homes accounting for ap-