The SmartKom Architecture: A Framework for Multimodal Dialogue Systems

Abstract

Summary: SmartKom provides an adaptive and reusable dialogue shell for multimodal interaction that has been employed successfully to realize fully-fledged prototype systems for various application scenarios. Taking the perspective of system architects, we review the overall design and specific architecture framework being applied within SmartKom. The basic design principles underlying our approach are described, and the different instantiations of the conceptual architecture are presented to illustrate the adaptibility and flexibility of the generic framework.