Model-driven development of vocal user interfaces

Abstract

There is lack of work addressing simply and extensively the development of vocal user interfaces considering at once the context of use: environment, user and platform. Several works have been published related to vocal user interface considered as a subset of bigger problems, such as: context awareness, multiplatform development, user-centred development, vocal user interface design, and multimodal development. It is normally the case to see that most design knowledge present in the literature assume vocal user interfaces as a subset of graphical user interfaces, called multimodal interaction, thus losing the nature of vocal interaction. The objective for this paper is to propose a method to generate multiplatform vocal User Interfaces. A transformational approach is used for the method. A real life case study is used to validate our proposal. © 2013 Springer International Publishing.