Editorial for intelligent interactive multimedia systems and services

Abstract

Users worldwide are spending more and more of their time on smart device platforms providing ubiquitous multimedia experience. Smart phones, tablets, e-Readers, web enabled television sets and other device platforms are all participating in this revolution. From the point of view of human-system interaction, however, such platforms pose distinct research problems. A consumer engaged in playing fantasy football has different interaction needs to one researching an address on a cell phone. Today, the vast majority of publishers simply do not have the ability to provide both the scale and quality of rich content to offer a usage experience targeted for multiple platforms. This special issue of MTAP devoted to Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services” is aimed at providing an overview of recent research results in this hot area, highlighting interdisciplinary aspects as well as the links between basic multimedia techniques and smart device applications. We believe that all papers featured in this special issue, while providing outstanding research contributions, succeeded in remaining clear and understandable enough to have a string appeal for nonspecialists wishing to understand the state of the art in this field. Some papers, like the one by Othmani et al. (DOI 10.1007/s11042-010-0697-6) “A novel approach for high dimension 3D object representation using Multi-Mother Wavelet Network” deal with basic research results in the representation and processing of multimedia objects. Other papers cover advanced human-system interaction; for instance, the paper by Sakurai et al. “A retrieval method adaptively reducing user’s subjective impression gap (DOI 10.1007/s11042-010-0690-0) deals with improving the user’s perception of retrieval Multimed Tools Appl (2012) 59:1–5 DOI 10.1007/s11042-012-1076-2