KOCHI: The development of an interface platform for mobile phones capable of helping users overcome old-age and illiteracy-related barriers is crucial for enabling a wider segment of the population gain access to a fast-growing range of mobile services, researchers at the IBM say.
The new platform that the IBM is working on can be used to build mobile applications that richly support multiple modes of user interaction — based on voice, images, icons, and text. It will be “common across different applications” and not be an operating system itself. And it is to spearhead the development of such a platform that the IBM recently announced a research project, with the National Institute of Design (NID) being one of the collaborating institutions.
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