Abstract:In this paper, we present an environment for authoring pervasive multimodal user interfaces. It is composed of a set of XML-based languages, transformations among such languages, and an authoring tool. It provides designers with the possibility of designing interfaces for a wide set of platforms, which support various modalities. We describe how the environment has deeply changed from the initial mono-modal, web-oriented environment and provide example applications for a number of platforms.Keywords: model-based design of interactive applications; multimodal interfaces; pervasive environments.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Paternò, F., Santoro, C., Mäntyjärvi, J., Mori, G. and Sansone, S. (2008) 'Authoring pervasive multimodal user interfaces ', Int. J. Web Engineering and Technology, Vol. 4, No. 2,.
Biographical notes: Fabio Paternò received his Laurea Degree in ComputerScience from the University of Pisa (Italy) and his PhD from the University of York (UK). Since 1986, he has been working at C.N.R. in Pisa, where he is the Research Director and Head of the Laboratory on Human Interfaces in Information Systems at ISTI. He has been the Scientific Coordinator of several EU projects. His current research interests include migratory interfaces, methods and tools for multimodal user interface design and evaluation, user interfaces for mobile devices, model-based design of interactive systems and end-user development. He has published over 140 papers in refereed international conferences or journals.During the last ten years, Dr. Carmen Santoro has worked on methods and tools for the analysis, design and development of interactive applications, and methods and tools for automatic support for usability evaluation. She has published papers in international conferences and journals on HCI and has been a member of several international HCI conferences. She has also been a Reviewer for international HCI journals. She was the Organisational Overviews