Educational session
Developing Portable Context-aware Multimodal Applications
Presenter: A. Ravi Reddy, Technical Director, Openstream Inc.
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM (with a break), Monday, January 24, 2011
Description
This is a practical, hands-on session where the participants will learn
about developing open-standards-based mobile applications that are
multimodal. Participants will get free access to the open-standards
(Eclipse)-based Cue-me single-authoring platform to develop multimodal
applications that run on all popular smartphone devices. At the end of
the session, participants will develop greater appreciation for
development process for multimodal enabling web applications using W3C
SCXML, InkML, and speech technologies.
Outline
With everything going mobile, Enterprises today recognize the need for mobile presence. However, they are quick to realize the limitations of early deployment of point solutions to specific mobile platforms; As such an approach not only limited their reach but also the ability to leverage necessary elements in a mobile solution such as delivery context, user experience and ease of maintenance.
Openstream's Cue-me ™, a context-aware multimodal mobile platform, is based on open standards from the W3C (www.w3c.org) and OSGi (www.osgi.org). The platform enables authors extend their knowledge and experience with the paradigm of web-development in writing portable applications across device platforms that adapt to the delivery context of the users.
Applications built using this context-aware, multimodal technology will allow adaptive user-interaction through speech, gesture, type & tap. Applications can be designed to leverage rich context-based interaction and on-device peripherals and adapt to the network-connectivity, presence and other ambient conditions.
In this tutorial, participants will get hands-on experience of developing context-aware multimodal mobile solutions using Cue-me platform. Utilizing easy to use Eclipse environment participants will be able to author an application once and run it on all popular smartphone platforms, while leveraging device specific peripherals. At the end of the session, participants will develop greater appreciation for cross platform development approach for context aware multimodal mobile applications using W3C standards such as SCXML, InkML, and Speech technologies.
Participants are expected to bring their own laptops running Windows7, XP, Vista or MacBook*preferably with any of the popular emulators like Blackberry, Android or iPhoneSDK already installed. Cue-me development kit for the participants’ target platforms will be provided during the tutorial.
About the presenter
Anthapu Ravi Reddy is a Technical Director and Lead member of the Mobile Multimodal and Speech development team at Openstream Inc. Over the last 16 years, he has worked on mobile web technologies and mobile user experience applications. He is the Lead Architect of Cue-me Platform (based on W3C MMI architecture) and its pluggable and extensible components, which are widely deployed in Pharmaceutical, Finance and Field Force automation sectors. He holds Masters Degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology and is a contributing member of W3C HTML Speech XG.
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