Workshop Recommendations

“What” and “How” of Recommendations

• What: Actions to be taken that will facilitate multi-modal web applications

• How/Who: Standards bodies that create standards

Hong Kong Manifesto

1. Establish a ‘working group’ ASAP to analyze, resolve, and prioritize the problems identified by the Multimodal Web workshop held in September in Hong Kong. These include

   1. No well defined definition of terms

   2. Different visual and voice markup languages

   3. No single authoring capability

   4. Different voice and GUI architectures

   5. Synchronization issues

   6. Multimodal interaction issues

   7. Authoring & rendering system issues

   8. Ergonomic and End-user issues

   9. Lack of published multimodal application scenarios

   10. Different visual and voice application models

   11. Identification of infrastructure requirements

   12. Addressing the issues of multiple channels

Hong Kong Manifesto (continued)

2. Scope the problem considering complexity of development environment, skill set, implementation cost, extensibility, etc.

3. Create use cases and a roadmap ASAP (no later than six months), with a draft recommendation available within a year.

4. Please review the documentation from this workshop, and use it as a starting point.

5. Re-use the skills of existing committees, both inside and outside of W3C

6. Demonstrate the participation of key stakeholders

Relevant groups

• Create a new working group or coordination group

• Use the subgroup of the W3C Voice Browser working group, with invited experts from mobile industry

• Open collaboration zone (WAP Forum + W3C) – coming soon

• The Open Group, Mobile Management Forum

• ETSI Aurora working group

• Oasis, new working group

• W3C WAI, XForms, Mobile Interest Group, SYMM (SMIL), Style, CC/PP, DOM, and Device Independence working groups

• WAP Forum WAE (Application), WTA (Telephony), WPG (Protocols), WSG (Security) working groups

How and Who

• Use W3C Voice Browsing (Multi-modal) subgroup (and within 6 months, new working group) and Open Collaboration Zone. New group to be chartered to coordinate with other interested parties.

• For: 22, Against: 4

As an outcome of this workshop, W3C is now now seeking submissions for detailed proposals as a precursor to chartering a multimodal working group.