Future Web Interface Technologies
by
Philipp Hoschka
Table of contents
Future Web Interface Technologies
Overview
SMIL
Scenario: TV News Broadcast
Split into "Media Objects"
Advantages of Media Objects over Video (1)
Advantages of Media Objects over Video (2)
SMIL Concepts
Structure of SMIL Document
SMIL Layout: Region Model
Region Markup
Other Layout Features
SMIL Timing and Synchronisation
Basic Concepts
SMIL Sequential Composition
SMIL Parallel Composition
Hierarchical Timing
Offset in Parallel Composition
Delay in Sequential Composition
Looping
Exclusive Composition
Media Transitions
Animations
Interactivity: Hyperlinks
Interactivity: Anchors in time
Event-Based Activation
User Selection of Content
User Selection: Markup
Content Control
Content Control: Markup
XHTML+SMIL
SMIL Implementations
Support for New Devices
Challenges
Briefly ....
CC/PP: Composite Capability/Preferences Profile
Example Capability Information
Issue: Size of Description
CC/PP Solution: Description by Reference
Issue: Extensibility of Vocabulary
CC/PP Example
Voice Browsers
Example: Flight reservation
Why use voice as a user interface?
Application Examples
Voice Browser Environment
W3C Specifications
Dialogue Description
Dialogue State Diagram
Example Dialogue
Techniques to Improve User Interface
Speech Recognition Grammar Specification
Example Rule
Reusing Rules
Dealing with Prononciations
Speech Synthesis Markup Language
Markup for Text Structure
Markup for Text Normalisation
Markup for Text-to-phoneme Conversion
Changing Voices
Markup for Prosody
Including Recorded Audio
Example Systems
Future: Multimodal
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