We have developed Interaction Builder (IB), a rapid prototyping tool for constructing web-based Multi-Modal Interaction (MMI) applications. The goal of IB is making it easy to develop MMI applications with speech recognition, life-like agent, speech synthesis, web browsing, etc. For this purpose, IB supports the following interface and functions: (1) GUI for implementing MMI systems without details of MMI and MMI description language, (2) functionalities for handling synchronized multimodal inputs/outputs, (3) a test run mode for run-time testing. The results of evaluation tests showed that the application development cycle using IB was significantly shortened in comparison with the time using a text editor both for MMI description language experts and for beginners.
Cite as: Katsurada, K., Sato, K., Adachi, H., Yamada, H., Nitta, T. (2005) A rapid prototyping tool for constructing web-based MMI applications. Proc. Interspeech 2005, 1861-1864, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2005-587
@inproceedings{katsurada05b_interspeech,
author={Kouichi Katsurada and Kunitoshi Sato and Hiroaki Adachi and Hirobumi Yamada and Tsuneo Nitta},
title={{A rapid prototyping tool for constructing web-based MMI applications}},
year=2005,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2005},
pages={1861--1864},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2005-587}
}