A haptic-enabled multimodal interface for the planning of hip arthroplasty

Multimodal environments help fuse a diverse range of sensory modalities, which is particularly important when integrating the complex data involved in surgical preoperative planning. The authors apply a multimodal interface for preoperative planning of hip arthroplasty with a user interface that integrates immersive stereo displays and haptic modalities. This article overviews this multimodal application framework and discusses the benefits of incorporating the haptic modality in this area

A Proposal for Processing and Fusioning Multiple Information Sources in Multimodal Dialog Systems

Proceedings of: PAAMS 2014 International Workshops. Agent-based Approaches for the Transportation Modelling and Optimisation (AATMO' 14 ) & Intelligent Systems for Context-based Information Fusion (ISCIF' 14). Salamanca, Spain, June 4-6, 2014.Multimodal dialog systems can be defined as computer systems that process two or more user input modes and combine them with multimedia system output. This paper is focused on the multimodal input, providing a proposal to process and fusion the multiple input modalities in the dialog manager of the system, so that a single combined input is used to select the next system action. We describe an application of our technique to build multimodal systems that process user's spoken utterances, tactile and keyboard inputs, and information related to the context of the interaction. This information is divided in our proposal into external and internal context, user's internal, represented in our contribution by the detection of their intention during the dialog and their emotional state.This work was supported in part by Projects MINECO TEC2012-37832-C02-01, CICYT TEC2011-28626-C02-02, CAM CONTEXTS (S2009/TIC-1485)