The design of mobile multimodal communication device - personal navigator

Author

Kotnik, Bojan ; Rotovnik, Tomaz ; Kacic, Zdravko ; Horvat, Bogomir ; Horvat, Bostjan ; Kramberger, Iztok

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Maribor Univ., Slovenia

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

4-7 July 2001

Firstpage

337

Abstract

The personal navigator presents a multimodal communication device. To its user it enables visual, tactile and voice communication. Visual and tactile communication between the user and the navigator runs over a graphical LCD display with touch-panel, which in that way serves as an input and output device. Through GSM data communication the personal navigator is connected to a navigation server, which runs on a personal computer and is also a constituent part of the whole personal navigator system. The personal navigator has built-in support for a digital signal processor by which the automatic speech synthesis and recognition are performed. The momentary scheme of the personal navigator enables a wide palette of applications like tourist guide functions (informing the user about his position, presenting tourist sites and guiding), information functions (giving daily news, Internet browser) and communication device (notebook SMS messages, E-mail).

Keywords

Internet; cellular radio; digital signal processing chips; electronic mail; integrated voice/data communication; liquid crystal displays; personal communication networks; radionavigation; speech recognition; speech synthesis; visual communication; E-mail; GSM; Internet browser; automatic speech synthesis; communication device; daily news; data communication; digital signal processor; graphical LCD display; information functions; input device; mobile multimodal communication device; navigation server; notebook SMS messages; output device; personal computer; personal navigator; positioning; speech recognition; tactile communication; touch panel; tourist guide functions; visual communication; voice communication; Automatic speech recognition; Computer displays; Data communication; Digital signal processors; GSM; Liquid crystal displays; Microcomputers; Mobile communication; Navigation; Speech synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EUROCON'2001, Trends in Communications, International Conference on.

Conference_Location

Bratislava, Slovakia

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6490-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURCON.2001.938129

Filename

938129