Future Web Interface Technologies
by Philipp Hoschka

Table of contents

• Future Web Interface Technologies
• Overview
• SMIL
• Scenario: TV News Broadcast
• Split into "Media Objects"
• Advantages of Media Objects over Video (1)
• Advantages of Media Objects over Video (2)
• SMIL Concepts
• Structure of SMIL Document
• SMIL Layout: Region Model
• Region Markup
• Other Layout Features
• SMIL Timing and Synchronisation
• Basic Concepts
• SMIL Sequential Composition
• SMIL Parallel Composition
• Hierarchical Timing
• Offset in Parallel Composition
• Delay in Sequential Composition
• Looping
• Exclusive Composition
• Media Transitions
• Animations
• Interactivity: Hyperlinks
• Interactivity: Anchors in time
• Event-Based Activation
• User Selection of Content
• User Selection: Markup
• Content Control
• Content Control: Markup
• XHTML+SMIL
• SMIL Implementations
• Support for New Devices
• Challenges
• Briefly ....
• CC/PP: Composite Capability/Preferences Profile
• Example Capability Information
• Issue: Size of Description
• CC/PP Solution: Description by Reference
• Issue: Extensibility of Vocabulary
• Handling Converting Proxies
• Handling Blocking Proxies
• CC/PP Example
• Voice Browsers
• Example: Flight reservation
• Why use voice as a user interface?
• Application Examples
• Voice Browser Environment
• W3C Specifications
• Dialogue Description
• Dialogue State Diagram
• Example Dialogue
• Techniques to Improve User Interface
• Speech Recognition Grammar Specification
• Example Rule
• Reusing Rules
• Dealing with Prononciations
• Speech Synthesis Markup Language
• Markup for Text Structure
• Markup for Text Normalisation
• Markup for Text-to-phoneme Conversion
• Changing Voices
• Markup for Prosody
• Including Recorded Audio
• Example Systems
• Future (?): Multimodal
• More Information