Re: Concerning BLinux project (fwd)

[Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>]

One worthwhile project would be to design a user interface that provides
generic components which capture the semantic distinctions required for
spoken interaction and can also be presented graphically. This could be
based on an analysis of the types of input/output options required by
various types of interactions with application software. The resulting
system would need to be easy and natural for programmers to include in
their applications and also provide controls over the presentation in
different media, so that the visual, auditory and tactile renderings could
be independently customised.

Important and relevant analysis is provided in T. V. Raman's excellent
book, Auditory User Interfaces, Toward the Speaking Computer (1997),
details of which can be found at his web site.

The essential idea would be to extend the distinction between content and
presentation, which has been developed in structured markup languages, to
the entire user interface by creating a general means of specifying
interaction semantics and then specific presentational controls.

I am sure that experts in the u i field have developed proposals of this
kind.