Multimodal interaction and IoT applications

Abstract

Multimodal interaction enables multiple modes for users to interact with the system. Whereas the multimodal interaction with IoT applications depends on multimedia systems’ input/output which may limit their scalability and expressiveness. Furthermore, multimodal interaction with IoT applications could also be limited by input/output integration, security, privacy, and portability issues. This special issue focuses on recent state-of-the-art advances in multimodal interaction and IoT applications that could address these challenges. We aim at bringing together the latest industrial and academic progress, research, and development efforts within the rapidly maturing multimodal interaction and IoT applications. This article summarizes the research contribution of the accepted papers (27.94% acceptance rate) along with possible future directions emanating from these papers.