| Context evolves over time and acquisition of contextual information is essential. Incremental definition of context means context parameters are added, modified and deleted, one context parameter at a time. Interaction context (IC) is the collective context of the user, of his working environment and of his computing system. Our work -- the paradigm of an interaction context-sensitive pervasive multimodal multimedia computing system -- is an architectural design, exhibiting adaptability to IC. It is conceived with two purposes. First, given an instance of IC, it determines the optimal modalities that suit such IC. Second, given an instance of IC and the user's task and preferences, a mechanism performs an automatic selection of user's applications, the preferred suppliers to these applications and the preferred quality of service (QoS) dimensions' configurations of these suppliers. This optimal selection is done with respect to available computing resources, application suppliers and configuration restrictions within the given computing set-up.;Keywords: Human-machine interface, multimodal interface, pervasive computing, multimodal multimedia computing, software architecture... |
