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

Multimodal Interface Terminology

nMutual Disambiguation – disambiguation of the input content of a possible error prone modality from partial information supplied by another.

nDeictic Gestures – a gesture that contributes to the identification of an object (or group of objects) merely by indicating their location.

nReferent Object(s) – the object (or group of objects) to which a Diectic Gesture refers.

nFeature Level Fusion – method for fusing low-level information from parallel input streams within a multimodal architecture.