Context-aware personalization for mobile multimedia services

ABSTRACT

With the increasing amount of digital multimedia content, the user is more and more overstrained. A promising solution for this problem is personalization that assists the user in selecting content with respect to the user's interest. Since the capabilities of mobile devices increased significantly in the recent years, the number of mobile multimedia services grows steadily. The mobile services are confronted with a much more changing environment than stationary services. This additional information enables even more precise personalization.

This paper introduces an approach for context-aware personalization of mobile multimedia services. We developed a generic framework for application developers that can easily be configured and extended with application-specific algorithms matching content and context. In the proposed system, content selection is performed in a distributed way.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems
          Subjects: Client/server

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems
          Subjects: Distributed applications

  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Selection process; Information filtering
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design

Keywords:
context-aware personalization, multimedia, recommendation system