Architecture For E-learning Environments With Multimodal User Interface

Multimodal interaction is a proposal to turn the interaction between humans and machines more natural, increasing the usability, flexibility and convenience of the application. Improve an application with multimodal features impacts on its architecture and, to describe the main components to treat the multimodality, some architecture models are proposed in the literature, including for Web multimodal systems. e-Learning environments are Web-based systems and need a good usability, flexibility and convenience, requirements that can be improved with implementation of multimodal features on them. Since they have their own peculiarities, we need a more specific multimodal architecture model described in such a way to reuse the components built for multimodal systems and connect them with the e-learning environment components. This work proposes an architecture for e-learning environments and show their impact on the Ae e-learning system, an e-learning environment developed using a component-based development process. © 2013 IADIS.165172(2013) Ae - Aprendizado Eletrônico Environment, , http://tidia-ae.iv.org.br/Beder, D.M., A Case Study of the Development of e-Learning Systems Following a Component-based Layered Architecture (2007) Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2007), pp. 21-25. , Niigata, Japan, doi: 10.1109/ICALT.2007.4Chee, Y., (2011) Ink Markup Language (InkML) W3C Recommendation, , http://www.w3.org/TR/InkML/Da Silva, A.C., Da Rocha, H.V., InkBlog: A Pen-based blog tool for e-learning environments (2013) Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, 10, pp. 121-135Dumas, B., Multimodal interfaces: A survey of principles, models and frameworks (2009) Human-Machine Interaction, pp. 3-26. , Lalanne D. and Kohlas, J., Eds. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Berlin, German, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00437-7-1Gruenstein, A., The WAMI toolkit for developing, deploying, and evaluating web-accessible multimodal interfaces (2008) Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces( ICMI 2008), pp. 141-148. , Chania, Greece, doi: 10.1145/1452392.1452420Lalanne, D., Fusion engine for multimodal input: A survey (2009) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-MLMI'09), pp. 153-160. , Cambridge, USA, doi: 10.1145/1647314.1647343Mayes, T., The 'M' Word: Multimedia interfaces and their role in interactive learning systems (1992) Multimedia Interface Design in Education, pp. 1-22. , Edwards, A. D. N., Holland, S. Eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, GermanMcCobb, G., (2013) The W3C Multimodal Architecture, Part 2: The XML Specification Stack, , http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-multimodarch2/index.html(2013) Moodle.Org: Open-source Community-based Tools for Learning, , http://www.moodle.orgOviatt, S.L., Advances in robust multimodal interface design (2003) IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 23 (5), pp. 62-68. , doi: 10.1109/MCG.2003.1231179(2013) Sakai Project | Collaboration and Learning - For Educators by Educators, , http://sakaiproject.org(2013) TelEduc. Ensino A Distância, , http://www.teleduc.org.br(2013) Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, , http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-mmi-arch-20121025