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ESCA Workshop on Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Systems (IDS-99)June 22-25, 1999 |
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ESCA Workshop on Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Systems (IDS-99)June 22-25, 1999 |
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Several multimodal modules combining several input modalities such as speech and gesture have been alread implemented (cf CMC'98, IJCAI'97, CMC'95, IMMI95). Comparison of these multimodal modules can be done on the basis of their evaluation during user studies. Yet, user studies are done with different protocols from one multimodal module to the other. Hence comparison is difficult. Multimodal systems can also be compared on th basis of the number and complexity of modality they process. Yet, it seems weird to take into account the monomodal aspects of multimodal modules in their comparison.
In this paper, we suggest two new criteria for comparing multimodal modules from a software-engineering point of view: how well do these multimodal modules address the upgrading and composing problems.
Full Paper (freely accessible)
Bibliographic reference. Martin, Jean-Claude (1999): ""Is your multimodal software better than mine?" How to compare multimodal modules from a practical software engineering point of view", In IDS-99, 153.