Search Results for "sensory modalities"

There is a lot of interesting research going on in the group (feel free to contact anyone in the group if you want to know more - contact details are on the home page). We are really interested in multimodal human-computer interaction - using different sensory modalities to communicate information. Most current interfaces rely almost entirely on vision to present information. This is not natural and can cause sighted users to become overloaded and is a major problem for people with sight impairments. What we are doing is investigating the use of

According to Kress (2004), multimodality deals with all the means human beings have for making meaning, referring to the modes of representation, such as drawing or writing. The author affirms that each mode forces individuals into making commitments about meaning, whether intended or not. Multimodality is based on the use of sensory modalities by which humans receive information, such as touch, vision, audition etc. and requests the use of at least two response modalities regarding presentation of information, like verbal and manual activity (Baber