摘要 |
A mobile telephone (1) includes a multimodal user interface and a rendering unit (10) that can be used to display icons on the display screen (3) of the mobile telephone (1). The rendering unit (10) receives inputs from a number of status factor determiners of the mobile telephone (1), such as an environmental quality assessment unit (7), a data quality of service unit (8), a network signal strength unit (9), an application engine (5), multimodal interface components (11), and an automatic speech recognition unit of a speech engine (22). The rendering unit (10) uses the status information that it receives to select an icon to be displayed to convey information about the current status of the mobile telephone (1) to the user. The icon that is displayed by the rendering unit (10) is in the form of a human face that can show varying expressions and emotions. |