Context Models for Adaptive Dialogs and Multimodal Interaction

This article presents a context adaptive approach for multimodal interaction for the use in cognitive technical systems, so called companion systems. A system architecture is presented and we clarify where context awareness occurs on different levels with a layered context model. The focus is on the topics of dialog management, multimodal fusion, and multimodal fission, as the main participants in interaction. An implemented prototype is presented, yielding some concrete instances of the described context models and the adaption to them.