Advances in ubiquitous media technologies and applications

Abstract

The complexity of current and emerging computing systems has led the research communities to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. Dynamics in the cyberspace can be modeled as a spatiotemporal suite of events populated by the arrivals and departures of computing devices, usages of communication channels, and multimodal interactions, leading to a large interaction network. This network is a unique source of information for the analysis of existing technologies and the design of future generation of ubiquitous multimedia systems. Contemporary ubiquitous devices have unleashed the boundary of one-to-one humancomputer interaction, and ubiquitous multimedia is one of the core technologies underpinning the knowledge-based economy worldwide [12]. Just as the television, telephone, computer, and the Internet that have fundamentally altered human society, the advent of pervasively deployed digital media technologies is fueling another revolution. Our world has become increasingly swamped with portable and miniaturized video devices, such as camera phones, mobile TVs, digital camcorders, personal media players, and video surveillance sensors. Further, the miniaturization of information and communication technologies has facilitated the possibility of integrating them with the World Wide Web (2011) 14:217–222 DOI 10.1007/s11280-011-0123-7