A Better Future: Our Information Access will bevia Multimodal UIs

• Benefits

  • take advantage of more than 1 mode of input/output
  • computers could be used in more situations & places
  • UIs easier and useful to more people

• Obstacles

  • building multimodal UIs is hard
    • often require immature “recognition” technology
    • hard to combine recognition technologies
    • programming expertise required to do design
  • this was the state of GUIs in 1980

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