CHAT - Towards a general-purpose infrastructure for multimodal situation-adaptive user assistance
Carmelo Antonio Ardito, Thomas Pederson, Maria Francesca Costabile · CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Bari Aldo Moro) · 2006
position paper, we describe CHAT, an upcoming project aimed at providing multimodal context-sensitive services to mobile users. We specifically describe two conceptual corner stones of the project of relevance to the topic of user assistance in intelligent environments: a) a multimodal framework targeted at providing service access through different modalities for different real-world situations and for improving with mobile devices in general, b) an egocentric interaction model for framing with objects in the vicinity of a mobile user, including also other real-world and/or computational entities than the mobile device itself, ranging from computationally stupid everyday objects to more advanced interactive devices such as desktop PCs. The final section of the paper is devoted to open issues in the design of the CHAT infrastructure related to the topic of user assistance in intelligent environments.