Multimodal interface for human-machine communication

With the advance of speech, image and video technology, human-computer interaction (HCI) will reach a new phase.

In recent years, HCI has been extended to human-machine communication (HMC) and the perceptual user interface (PUI).

The final goal in HMC is that the communication between humans and machines is similar to human-to-human communication.

Moreover, the machine can support human-to-human communication (such as an interface for the disabled).

For this reason, various aspects of human communication are to be considered in HMC.

The HMC interface, called a multimodal interface, includes different types of input methods, such as natural language, gestures, face and handwriting characters.;The nine papers in this book have been selected from the 92 high-quality papers constituting the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Multimodal Interface (ICMI '99), which was held in Hong Kong in 1999.

The papers cover a wide spectrum of the multimodal interface.