Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Services, IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1325-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-1326-5
DOI :
10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283923
