T. V. Raman

On the Internet, no one knows you're not a dog!	Nor even if you're still the same dog!	Raman

Current Work

I work on conversational and multimodal Web interaction. See this 5 minute interview for a quick overview. Here are a number of standards activities and projects that I am presently involved in:

• W3C XForms W3C XForms ---next-generation XML powered Web forms--- is an update to HTML forms technology to better leverage the strengths of XML.
• XML Events The XML Events module defined in this specification provides XML languages with the ability to uniformly integrate event listeners and associated event handlers with Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 event interfaces [ DOM2EVENTS ]. The result is to provide an interoperable way of associating behaviors with document-level markup.
• XHTML+Voice Enables the creation of multimodal Web content by integrating XHTML and VoiceXML via XHTML 1.1 modularization. This is an update to W3C Note XHTML+Voice 1.0 .

I also work on more general issues of Web accessibility to ensure that future Web technologies are created accessible. You can find details of my prior work at my personal Web site. You can read an article profiling some of my work entitled Engineer's focus: accessible technology for all published by the San Jose Mercury News,July 2, 2003.

XForms --XML Powered Web Forms

Recent Publications

• EuroSpeech 2003 Tutorial on Conversational And Multimodal Interaction.
• XML Journal, April 2003X+V 1.1 ---Versatile Multimodal Solutions.
• Multimodal Interaction Design Principles For Multimodal Interaction, MMI Workshop, CHI 2003
• XML Journal, February 2003Collecting Business Critical Information Using XForms
• XHTML+Voice ---Bringing Spoken Interaction To The WWW, VoiceXML Review, June 2002 (Feature Article).

Recent Talks

Here are slides from some of my recent public talks.

• Overview of W3C XForms Accessible HTML
• X+V 1.1 Accessible HTML
• Overview of W3C XML Events And DOM Execution Model Accessible HTML