Multimodal interfaces in multidevice environments

This paper describes an environment able to support migratory multimodal interfaces in multidevice environments. We introduce the software architecture and the device-independent languages used by our tool, which provides services enabling users to freely move about, change device and continue the current task from the point where they left off in the previous device. Our environment currently supports interaction with applications through graphical and vocal modalities, either separately or together. Such applications are implemented in Web-based languages. We discuss how the features of the device at hand, desktop or mobile, are considered when generating the multimodal user interface.