Context-Aware Multimedia Content Adaptation for Mobile Web

Lina Zhou,Dongsong Zhang,Anil Jangam,Isil Yakut

doi:10.2991/ijndc.2015.3.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.2991/ijndc.2015.3.1.1

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Abstract

Multimedia content in web pages poses a variety of problems to mobile web users, such as incompatibility with mobile devices or failing to meet accessibility needs of users with vision disabilities. To address those problems, this study proposes and evaluates a context-aware approach to multimedia content adaptation for mobile Web. It uniquely takes into consideration not only users’ preferences and accessibility needs, but also capabilities of multimedia support of specific mobile devices. Evaluation shows that the proposed approach is accurate and efficient. This study provides insights for research on context-aware mobile computing, adaptive interfaces, and mobile HCI.

Highlights

In recent years, there has been remarkable growth of the use of smart phones featured with relatively high processing power, diverse sensors, and strong multimedia-support capabilities
To address the limitations of existing methods, this study proposes a Context-Aware, Dynamic Approach to Multimedia Adaptation (CADAMA) (Figure 1) for mobile Web according to specific user and device context
This study presents CADAMA, a user-centered, device-aware, and dynamic adaptation approach to multimedia adaptation for mobile Web

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Introduction

There has been remarkable growth of the use of smart phones featured with relatively high processing power, diverse sensors, and strong multimedia-support capabilities. This research proposes a user-centered, device-aware, and dynamic multimedia adaptation approach for mobile Web. Mobile web adaptation refers to the change of content and/or display of web pages in order to make web browsing on mobile handheld devices more effectively and accessible.[2] The proposed method is aimed to adapt multimedia content in web pages based on users’ specific needs and characteristics of mobile phones (i.e., context). Our proposed method automatically adapts multimedia content in a web page at run time to address the accessibility needs and personal adaptation preferences of users (i.e., user context), and take multimedia support capabilities of individual mobile devices (i.e., device context) into consideration.

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Architecture of CADAMA

User-Centered Adaptation

Device-aware Adaptation

Evaluation

Conclusion