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Publication
Communications of the ACM
Review
Multimodal processing by finding common cause
Abstract
Techniques that automatically determine whether events in multiple, multimodal input streams share a common cause are described. It is found that techniques are well-suited for answering a variety of context-awareness questions that arise in human-computer interaction. Context-aware systems being aware of human activity able to interpret a user's intentions and can provide context-aware and personalized support to aid task completion. It is suggested that additional techniques for extracting context information like why and how things happen must also be developed.