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Amazon made a very interesting move, enabling it’s users of the aStore product to modify the CSS of their own pages. A Store is an important part of the tools Amazon offers to people that are in its associates program. So, now every user of aStore is able to change the CSS interface of the look of his site, having the opportunity to change over 8000 characters of the CSS code for page, such as the product description and search results. New themes for aStore can be created, and also the members would have the opportunity to share them among

In order to ease the development of devices with visual and voice interfaces for PDAs and other handheld devices, the Multimodal Toolkit and Rational Application Developer can be used. By using these products one can minimize the skills and time needed for creating complicated programs that use XHTML+V(XHTML + VOICE) on compatible devices. XHTML+V is a new technology, that combine XHTML and voice interfaces on small devices, like PDAs and tablets. It is accomplished by combining different web standards, such as ECMAScript, JavaScript,

The computing applications of the wearable computers set up the need for a more context-oriented interface comparing with the classical desktop computers. This article tries to describe what a multimodal interface is and how can it improve the user's situational awareness and provide new functionality. By using an augmented reality system, one can see additional information that is otherwise invisible. As an example can be the situation from the action games, where on a HUD you could see a small map of the surrounding infrastructure, your

The multimodal interaction can be very useful in the modern conditions, especially while in traffic. It can help pedestrians, as well as drivers to be focused on the traffic, while doing in the same time usual things like checking the e-mail. By combining traditional mouse/keyboard input with non-traditional user input modes, such as pen, speech and gestures one can achieve visible improvements in device interactivity, for example by saying a word, instead of typing it. In such a way, while on the road you don’t have to be focused on