Multimodal control via heterogeneous devices

Multimodal user interfaces are capable to perceive speech, movements, poses and gestures of meeting participants in order to satisfy their needs by a natural and intuitively understandable way of interaction between a user and the proposed intelligent meeting room. Awareness of the room about spatial positions of the participants, their current activities and preferences, as well as roles in a current event helps the system to predict more accurately the intentions and needs of participants. Integration of Nokia mobile phones with the sensor network and smart services allows users to control effectors, audio/video and other facilities distantly. Some scenarios of multimodal interaction with the room as well as issues of adaptation of graphical user interface to limitations of mobile phone Internet browser are discussed.