Preface
This book provides novel insights into the research, development, and
designing of advanced techniques and methods for more natural multimodal
human-machine interfaces for use within desktop and pervasive computing
environments. The book consists of 15 chapters structured so as to provide
an in-depth investigation of novel approaches from both the theoretical and
practical perspective. Humans tend to interact using several modalities and
communication channels in a highly complex, yet synergetic manner. The
key communication concepts are expressed by fusing the modalities and
by using two or more modalities simultaneously. Whilst communicating,
humans tend to visualize and personalize the information provided. We
perform this either ...