Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards: Toward Natural User Interfaces to Everything

This book presents new standards for multimodal interaction published by the W3C and other standards bodies in straightforward and accessible language, while also illustrating the standards in operation through case studies and chapters on innovative implementations. The book illustrates how, as smart technology becomes ubiquitous, and appears in more and more different shapes and sizes, vendor-specific approaches to multimodal interaction become impractical, motivating the need for standards. This book covers standards for voice, emotion, natural language understanding, dialog, and multimodal architectures. The book describes the standards in a practical manner, making them accessible to developers, students, and researchers.

• Comprehensive resource that explains the W3C standards for multimodal interaction clear and straightforward way;
  
• Includes case studies of the use of the standards on a wide variety of devices, including mobile devices, tablets, wearables and robots, in applications such as assisted living, language learning, and health care;
  
• Features illustrative examples of implementations that use the standards, to help spark innovative ideas for future applications.

Dr. Deborah Dahl has over 20 years of experience in speech and natural language technologies, including working on research, defense, and commercial systems. She is also active in speech and multimodal standards activities in the World Wide Web Consortium, serving as Chair of the Multimodal Interaction Working Group and Co-Chair of the Hypertext Coordination Group. She is an editor of the EMMA (Extensible MultiModal Annotation specification). Dr. Dahl received the prestigious "Speech Luminary" award from Speech Technology Magazine, in 2012 and 2014.