Ontology-driven elicitation of multimodal user interface design recommendations

In this paper, we argue that current design guidelines for multimodal user interface design focus mostly on high-level design objectives and do not capture and reflect on the considerable practical experience and valuable expert knowledge that interface designers rely on. We propose an ontology-driven modelling framework, which allows to capture the domain and expert knowledge available within the interface design community and to support designers in their daily design tasks by eliciting user and application dependent design recommendations. We illustrate how this framework can be used in practice with a concrete case study devoted to multimodal interface design for the purpose of emergency response applications.