SMART - System for Multimodal and Multilingual Access, Reading and Retrieval for Electronic Documents
Nadine Vigouroux, Franz Peter Seiler, Bernard Oriola, Philippe Truillet · 1995
: SMART is a tool to access, read and retrieve electronic documents. It is a multimodal system as it offers mainly audio and tactile modalities for interacting with the electronic document. SMART is multilingual as the menus and messages are available for French, German and English. It is currently operational with structured documents. The specification of an interaction model gives to SMART adaptive characteristics to individual user requirements (devices, reading strategy, personal flags). The prototype built on these principles will be described for French and German languages on electronic newspapers and articles. 1. Introduction The amount of available electronic documents is increasing through the new generation of Desk Top Publishing systems which allow integration of sound and image into the common textual information. Electronic Documents (EDs) are no longer merely analogue to paper, but rather dynamic, modular and multimedia. At the same time, these documents are becoming t...