For the interaction with in-vehicle interfaces such as infotainment systems, the concept of ‘one button per function’ has worn out. In order to cope with the increasing functionality of in-vehicle information systems, researchers and practitioners are eager to integrate natural user interfaces and multimodal feedback into the car. In the paper, we discuss our approach of Remote Tactile Feedback...

This paper describes an experiment in controlled natural language interface technology. The system under work ensures a syntactic and semantic correct composition of input sentences, without restricting the user too much. The lexicon as well as the syntactic and semantic restrictions are maintained in flexible structures which can be updated at any time. The application of the system at present...

1 Introduction Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction (EHCI) focuses on system development models, methods, processes and tools that enable teams to create effective user interfaces on-time and on-budget. Software engineering typically identifies four main classes of activity within a system development project: Planning, Analysis, Design, Evaluation. For the design activity, architectural ...

Natural interfaces for CAD applications based on sketching devices have been explored to some extent. Former approaches used techniques to perform the recognition process like invariant features extracted with image analysis techniques as neural networks, statistical learning or fuzzy logic. Currently, more flexible and robust techniques are being introduced, which consider other information as...

The MTALKmultimodal browser is a tool which enables rapid prototyping for research and development of mobile multimodal interfaces combining natural modalities such as speech, touch, and gesture. MTALKintegrates a broad range of open standards for authoring graphical and spoken user interfaces and is supported by a cloud-based multimodal processing architecture. In this paper, we describe MTALK...

The absence of software support for early-stage design suggests that conventional graphical user interfaces are inadequate for this task. Perceptual interaction – in particular, pen-based interaction – may afford more natural and intuitive user interfaces for design support. The development of a multimodal intelligent design studio poses several important research challenges. Natural multimodal...

Humans have a strong natural ability to remember item locations. In graphical user interfaces, this ability is one of the primary mechanisms by which users become efficient. However, there are two ways in which modern applications often fail to exploit the potential of spatial memory. First, they overuse hierarchical structures such as cascading menus, which slows down interaction for expert us...

The diffusion of groupware disciplines has determined the development of a wide range of cooperative applications with multimedia user interfaces.User interfaces have evolved from the point of view of the type of communication that they determine between user and computer. Traditionally, user interfaces involve three aspects: the system, the user and the way in which they interact. The goal of ...

Mobile and wearable interfaces try to integrate digital information into our everyday experiences but usually require more attention than is appropriate and often fail to do so in a natural and socially acceptable way. In this thesis we present “ReachMedia,” a system for seamlessly providing just-in-time information for everyday objects. The system is built around a wireless wristband that dete...