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The convergence of W3C and WAP standards, and the emerging importance of speech recognition and synthesis for the Mobile Web
Shangri-La Hotel,
Hong Kong, 5-6 September 2000
See also: Position Papers, and Workshop Overview
Dave Raggett's introduction and meeting notes.
As an outcome of this workshop, W3C is now now seeking submissions for detailed proposals as a precursor to chartering a multimodal working group.
| TUESDAY, September 5 | |||
| Time | Topic | Presentation/Activity | Responsible person |
| 9.00-9.15 | 1. Welcome and goal setting | Program Committee | |
| 9.15-9.30 | 2. Introductions | All attendees | |
| 9.30-10.10 | 3. Convergence requirements 10 minute summaries of positions |
Nuance Position | Steve Ehrlich Peter Monaco Rajesh Ragoobeer |
| Digital Channel Partners Position | Daniel K. Applequist | ||
| Philips Position — Framework for Web Content Adaptation | Jon C.S. Wu Eric C.N. Hsi Warner ten Kate Peter M.C. Chen |
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| SEC Position | Sachiko YOSHIHAMA | ||
| 10.10-10.30 | 4. Convergence requirements identification | Brainstorm | Each attendee contributes one requirements |
| 10.30-11.00 | Break | Each attendee votes for most important requirements | |
| 11.00-11.40 | 5. Integration of WAP and VoiceXML
languages 10 minute summaries of positions |
Summarize status of W3C's multimodal dialog requirements and specification | Marianne Hickey |
| PipeBeach Position — VoiceXML and WML Convergence (224Kb PDF) (Especially sections on Dialog Markup Language: Status of requirements & Voice-Enabling WAP Sites by Transcoding WML to VoiceXML) | Scott McGlashan | ||
| Telstra Position — The Rise of the Multimodal WEB (Especially section on Developers and the discussion of transcoding vs alternative representations) | Andrew Scott | ||
| Phone.com & HP position — Towards Convergence of WML, XHTML, and other W3C Technologies | Ted Wugofski Dave Raggett |
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| 11.40-12.30 | 6. Integration of WAP and VoiceXML languages requirements and approaches |
Multiple parallel breakout groups to specify and prioritize requirements for an integrated WAP/VoiceXML language and identify promising technical approaches | All attendees |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch | ||
| 13.30-14.00 | 7. Single authoring 10 minute summaries of positions |
NTT DoCoMo position — WML-NG Style Sheet Requirements | Kazunari Kubota |
| IBM position (150Kb PDF) | Stephane H Maes T.V.Raman |
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| NEC position — XML document navigation language | Naoko Ito | ||
| 14.00-15.00 | 8. Single
authoring requirements and approaches |
Multiple parallel breakout groups to specify and prioritize requirements for single authoring, and identify promising technical approaches | All attendees |
| 15.00-15.30 | Break | ||
| 15.30-15.50 | 9. Convergence of WAP and VoiceXML
architectures 10 minute summaries of positions |
PipeBeach position (especially section on synchronization of WAP and VoiceXML Browsers) | Scott McGlashan |
| Aurora position — The impact of distributed speech recognition on multimodal interfaces to the mobile web | David Pearce, Dieter Kopp, & Wieslawa Wajda See also Avios DSR paper (97Kb PDF) |
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| 15.50-17.00 | 10. Convergence
of WAP and VoiceXML architectures requirements and approaches |
Multiple parallel breakout groups to specify and prioritize requirements & technical approaches | All Attendees |
| 17.00-18.00 | 11. Integrate requirements & approaches | Representatives from each breakout group meet to merge requirements and approaches for presentation on Wednesday at 9.00 | Representatives from each breakout group |
| WEDNESDAY, September 6 | |||
| Time | Topic | Presentation/Activity | Responsible person |
| 9.00-9.15 | 12. Discuss other requirements from topic
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Organize parallel break out groups on specific convergence requirements (possible topics include SMIL, disabilities, guidelines, etc.) | Program committee |
| 9.15-10.30 | Breakout groups identify and prioritize specific requirements and identify promising alternative solutions | ||
| 10.30-11.00 | Break | ||
| 11.00-11.30 | 13. Present merged reports from topic 11 | Merged report on Integration of WAP and VoiceXML languages | Program committee |
| Merged report on Single authoring |
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| Merged report on Convergence of WAP and VoiceXML architectures | |||
| 11.30-12.30 | 14. Present reports from activity 12 | Reports from other breakout groups: |
Program committee |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch | ||
| 13.30-15.30 | 15. Determine how existing or new standards committees/working groups can solve major issues from topics 13 and 14 | Brainstorm--Identify existing or new committees/working groups to solve major issues from reports | Program committee |
| Discussion--Recommend which existing or new committees/working groups should solve major issues from reports | |||
| 15.30-16.00 | Break | ||
| 16.00-17.30 | 16. Identify future actions | Create specific recommendations to existing committees and/or recommendations to create new committees | Program committee |
| 17.00 | Workshop ends | ||