@InProceedings{Reiterer2009, author = {Reiterer, Bernhard and Lachner, Janine and Lorenz, Andreas and Zimmermann, Andreas and Hellwagner, Hermann}, booktitle = {Advances in Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization}, title = {Research Directions Toward User-centric Multimedia}, year = {2009}, address = {Boca Raton (Florida)}, editor = {Angelides, Marios C and Mylonas, Phivos and Wallace, Manolis}, month = mar, pages = {21-42}, publisher = {Auerbach Publications}, abstract = {Currently, much research aims at coping with the shortcomings in multimedia consumption that may exist in a user's current context, e.g., due to the absence of appropriate devices at many locations, a lack of capabilities of mobile devices, restricted access to content, or non-personalized user interfaces. Recently, solutions to specific problems have been emerging, e.g., wireless access to multimedia repositories over standardized interfaces; however, due to usability restrictions the user has to spend much effort to or is even incapable of fulfilling his/her demands. The vision of user-centric multimedia places the user in the center of multimedia services to support his/her multimedia consumption intelligently, dealing with the aforementioned issues while minimizing required work. Essential features of such a vision are comprehensive context awareness, personalized user interfaces, and multimedia content adaptation. These aspects are addressed in this paper as major challenges toward a user-centric multimedia framework.}, doi = {10.1201/9781420076653-c2}, edition = {2}, isbn10 = {1420076647}, isbn13 = {978-1420076646}, issn = {9781420076646}, language = {EN}, talktype = {none}, url = {http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781420076646} }