W3C Technologies for Motor Vehicle Telecommunications

Philipp Hoschka
Deputy Director Europe/Interaction Domain Leader
W3C, France

What is W3C ?

• Founded by Tim Berners-Lee, Web Inventor
• Mission: Lead the Web to its Full Potential
• About 400 members (ATT, Avaya, Apple, Alcatel, DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson, France Telecom, KDDI, Nokia, Nortel, NTT Docomo, Openwave, Philips, SBC, Sony, T-Mobile, ...)
• Specifications: XML, (X)HTML, VoiceXML, SVG, ...
• Around 73 full time team members in Europe, Japan, US

W3C Management

• Executive Level
  • Director: Tim Berners-Lee, MIT
  • COO+Acting Chair: Steve Bratt, MIT
• Europe
  • Deputy Director: Philipp Hoschka, ERCIM
  • Associate Chair: Daniel Dardailler, ERCIM
• Asia
  • Deputy Director: Tatsuya Hagino, Keio University
  • Associate Chair: Nobuo Saito, Keio University

W3C and Cars: Voice

• W3C Leader in Voice Browser standardisation
• Voice XML, Speech Grammar Language, Speech Synthesis Language, ...
• Very active and succesful area
• Technologies should be usable for car speech interfaces

W3C and Cars: Multimodal

• Ink, Gesture, Haptic, ...
• Currently driven by Mobile industry
• Very interested in input from automotive industry !

W3C and Cars: Interface Technologies

• SVG: XML-based Vector Graphics
• XForms: Form-based user interfaces
• XHTML
• Use in car displays, car navigation maps, ...

W3C and Cars: Web Services

• XML-based distributed programming
• SOAP, WSDL, ...
• Integration of in-car software

W3C and Cars: Semantic Web

• Explicit representation of data semantics
• Built for extensibility and parallel development
• Supports data integration, mapping of schemes
• Example: Find restaurant that has Sushi
  • Japanese restaurant
  • Asian restaurant
  • Fish restaurant
  • ...
• Semantic Web can
  • Integrate and map different categorization schemes
  • Do logical deductions

Summary

• Interest: Use of W3C tech's in vehicles
• Primary motivation: Multimodal, Voice
• Others: Interface tech's, Web Services, Semantic Web