To improve coverage, reliability, and usability, researchers are designing new multimodal interfaces that automatically learn and adapt to important user, task, and environmental parameters.
The authors have designed a generic modeling framework for specifying multimodal HCI using the Unified Modeling Language. Because it?s a well-known and widely supported standard, UML makesit easier for software engineers unfamiliar with multimodal research to apply HCI knowledge, resulting in broader and more practical effects.