Multimodal Dialog Description for Mobile Devices

The provision of personalized user interfaces for mobile devices is a challenging task since different devices with varying capabilities and interaction modalities have to be supported. Multiple variants of different UIs for one application almost enforces the employment of a model-based approach in order to design one interface and to adapt to or render it on those devices. This position paper presents a new dialog modelling language named DISL (Dialog and Interface Specification Language) that is based on UIML and DSN (Dialog Specification Notation). DISL supports the modelling of advanced dialogs in a comprehensive way. The dialog descriptions are device- and modality-agnostic and therefore highly scalable with focus on limited devices, like mobile phones.