MOBILTEL - Mobile Multimodal Telecommunications Systems and Services

Abstract

In this paper the project MobilTel is presented. The communication itself is becoming a multimodal interactive process. The MobilTel project provides research and development activities in multimodal interfaces area. The result is a functional architecture for mobile multimodal telecommunication systems. The MobilTel communicator is a multimodal Slovak speech and graphical interface. The other possible modalities are pen-touch screen interaction, keyboard, and display on which the information is more user friendly presented (icons, emoticons, etc.), and provides hyperlink and scrolling menu availability. We describe the method of interaction between mobile terminal (PDA) and MobilTel multimodal PC communicator. We also present the graphical examples of services that enable users to obtain information about weather or information about train connection between two train stations.