Multimodal Framework Design, Children’s Multimodal Usage Patterns and the Efficacy of Mutual Disambiguation for Children

Multimodal Interfaces Terminology

nMultimodal Interfaces - interfaces that process two or more input modes in a coordinate manner with multimedia output.

nActive Input Modes – modes that are intentionally deployed by the as an explicit command.

nPassive Input Modes – modes that consist of naturally occurring user behaviors or actions that provide input to an application and do not require an explicit command.

nBlended Multimodal Interfaces – multimodal interfaces that incorporate at least one passive and one active input mode

nTemporally-cascaded Multimodal Interfaces – multimodal interfaces whose modalities tend to be sequenced in a particular temporal order such that partial information from one modality is available to constrain interpretation of a later mode.