Multimodal enactive interface: Design principles grounded on cognitive neuroscientific basis

This article discusses about having a next generation graphical user interfaces, grounded on the cognitive neuroscientific basis. Unlike the design of the present as well as the past generation of unimodal interfaces which is more often functionally oriented, the design of multimodal enactive interfaces is strongly anchored on the users’ experience: such a design has to overcome both the technological limitations as well as the biological challenges in order to deliver the experience in a realistic manner similar to that of a human-human interaction. Although a seamless integration of multimodal information during a human-human interaction occurs in a natural fashion with ease, such a simultaneous delivery and integration of multichannel information during a human-machine interaction is highly challenging in real time. This article calls for the multimodal enactive interfaces to ensure a delivery of realistic multimodal experiences to the users and to aim this multisensory integration both from technology as well as cognitive science point of views need to be considered during the design process.