A Benchmarking Framework for Multimodal User Interface Toolkits: Comparing Modality Coverage, Developer Workflow, and Experimental Support

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02977v1
• Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:31:38 GMT
• Title: A Benchmarking Framework for Multimodal User Interface Toolkits: Comparing Modality Coverage, Developer Workflow, and Experimental Support
• Abstract summary: Multimodal user interfaces increasingly combine speech, gesture, vision, gaze, touch, biosignals, and other sensor data.<n>Recent toolkits from the past five years, such as Geno, Multisensor-Pipeline (MSP), ReactGenie, and EmoSync, aim to make it easier for developers to prototype such interfaces.<n>Yet the field still lacks a systematic and reusable way to compare what these toolkits actually support, how much implementation work they offload from developers, and which evaluation strategies are appropriate for them.
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• Abstract: Multimodal user interfaces increasingly combine speech, gesture, vision, gaze, touch, biosignals, and other sensor data. Recent toolkits from the past five years, such as Geno, Multisensor-Pipeline (MSP), ReactGenie, and EmoSync, aim to make it easier for developers to prototype such interfaces, while older work such as WAMI shows how early web-based multimodal systems were conceived. Yet the field still lacks a systematic and reusable way to compare what these toolkits actually support, how much implementation work they offload from developers, and which evaluation strategies are appropriate for them. This paper reframes an HCI seminar draft into a benchmarking framework paper for multimodal user interface toolkits. Rather than reporting completed empirical results, it proposes a structured benchmark based on document analysis, technical comparison, and a future developer-based evaluation. The framework is organized around three dimensions: modality coverage and interaction abstraction, developer experience and workflow, and experimental and integration support. The paper illustrates the framework through five representative toolkits: Geno, MSP, ReactGenie, WAMI, and EmoSync. The contribution is a reusable benchmark template that future researchers can instantiate with empirical measurements, developer studies, and additional multimodal toolkits.

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