Older adults have much to gain from bringing technology into their daily lives. The extent to
which this is possible strongly depends on careful design and accessible, easy-to-use …

Technologies, such as smart sensors, actuators, and other kinds of devices, are often
installed in our environments (eg, our Homes) and available to integrate our daily lives …

Using speech in computer interaction is advantageous in many situation and more natural
for the user. However, development of speech enabled applications presents, in general, a …

Multimodal user interfaces provide users with different ways of interacting with applications.
This has advantages both in providing interaction solutions with additional robustness in …

Today, people are increasingly capable of creating and sharing documents (which generally
are multimedia oriented) via the internet. These multimedia documents can be accessed at …

The number of mobile and desktop devices available in the home environment is rapidly
increasing with a notable emphasis on applications to serve AAL contexts. The coexistence …

Developing speech input modalities for several languages, combining speech recognition
and understanding, presents various difficulties. While automatic translators ease the …

Nowadays, users can interact with a system using a wide variety of modalities, such as touch
and speech. Nevertheless, multimodal interaction has yet to be explored for interactive …

Some elderly have resistance in what concerns the use of technology. Improving usability
and accessibility is expected to increase their acceptance and use of new technologies …

Multimedia documents can be accessed at anytime and anywhere on a wide variety of
devices, such as laptops, tablets and smartphones. The heterogeneity of devices and user …