Building Multimodal Dialog User Interfaces in the Context of the Internet of Services

Abstract

We will show how to build innovative multimodal dialog user interfaces that integrate multiple heterogeneous web services as data sources on the basis of the Ontology-based Dialog Platform (ODP). More specifically, we will describe how to exploit ODP's well-defined extension points and how generic ODP processing modules can be adopted, in order to support a rapid dialog system engineering process. By means of the latest ODP-based educational information system CIRIUS and the ODP workbench, a set of Eclipse-based editors and tools, we demonstrate step-by-step along the generic multimodal dialog processing chain what has to be done for developing a new multimodal dialog user interface for a specific application domain. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.