Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Multimodal interaction

I've been doing a lot of presentations about my PhD research in different contexts: doctoral consortium (as mentioned here), workshops, courses (mentioned here), projects, etc. And it gets more and more fun, as you talk about something you like to work on everyday.

But it could also be good to diverse a little bit... Interestingly enough, last week I was invited to represent my advisor, Jean Vanderdonckt, at the Workshop on the Challenges of Engineering Multimodal Interaction: Methods, Tools, Evaluation presenting a work about the development of multimodal user interfaces. Talk about diversity! Of course, it is indeed one of the main topics of interest of the BCHI lab where I work through UsiXML; but it is certainly different from my topic on bridging the gaps between business process management and the user perspective.



It was good to present this work, it is about a UsiXML tool called InterpiXML, which was evolved to consider different interaction modalities, so users could navigate through images either by sketching on a graphical tablet or by doing hand gestures.

It was complimented, especially in the aspect that the presented project had the goal to integrate InterpiXML with OpenInterface, an open source framework for multimodal interaction.

It was certainly good to participate, take a look at my picture during the presentation and at the workshop venue: pas mal hun?!