A Multimodal Interaction Guide for Pervasive Services Access

Author

Augello, Agnese ; Santangelo, Andrea ; Sorce, Salvatore ; Pilato, Giovanni ; Gentile, Ann ; Genco, A. ; Gaglio, Salvatore

Author_Institution

DINFO-University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 6, 90128 Palermo, Italy

fYear

2007

fDate

15-20 July 2007

Firstpage

250

Lastpage

256

Abstract

A pervasive, multimodal virtual guide for a cultural heritage site tour is illustrated. The guide is based on the integration of different technologies such as conversational agents, commonsense reasoning knowledge bases, multimodal interfaces and self-location detection systems. The aim of the work is to offer a more natural, context sensitive access to information with respect to traditional audio/visual pre-recorded guides. A prototype has been developed and implemented on a Qtek 9090 with Windows Mobile 2003 in order to deal with the "Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento" domain.

Keywords

Web sites; common-sense reasoning; humanities; knowledge based systems; natural language interfaces; ubiquitous computing; virtual reality; Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento domain; Qtek 9090; Windows Mobile 2003; audio/visual pre-recorded guide; commonsense reasoning knowledge base; conversational agent; cultural heritage site tour; multimodal interaction guide; multimodal interface; multimodal virtual guide; pervasive services access; self-location detection system; Automatic speech recognition; Context-aware services; Councils; Cultural differences; Helium; Personal digital assistants; Prototypes; Radiofrequency identification; Speech synthesis; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Services, IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1325-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1326-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283923

Filename

4283923