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User Centric Media

First International Conference, UCMedia 2009, Venice, Italy, December 9-11, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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Table of contents (47 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. UcMedia 2009 - Keynote Speech

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. InterMedia: Towards Truly User-Centric Convergence of Multimedia

      • Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Niels A. Nijdam, Seunghyun Han, Dimitris Protopsaltou
      Pages 3-10
  3. UcMedia 2009 - Session 1: User Centric Multimedia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. From Photos to Memories: A User-Centric Authoring Tool for Telling Stories with Your Photos

      • Fons Kuijk, Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães, Pablo Cesar, Dick C. A. Bulterman
      Pages 13-20
    3. User-Centric Context-Aware Mobile Applications for Embodied Music Listening

      • Antonio Camurri, Gualtiero Volpe, Hugues Vinet, Roberto Bresin, Marco Fabiani, Gaël Dubus et al.
      Pages 21-30
    4. Sync’n’Move: Social Interaction Based on Music and Gesture

      • Giovanna Varni, Maurizio Mancini, Gualtiero Volpe, Antonio Camurri
      Pages 31-38
  4. UcMedia 2009 - Session 2: Content in Media Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
    2. From Coach Potatoes to TV Prosumers: Community-Oriented Content Creation for IDTV

      • Oscar Mayora-Ibarra, Christian Fuhrhop, Elizabeth Furtado
      Pages 41-49
    3. Innovation in Online Communities – Towards Community-Centric Design

      • Petter Bae Brandtzæg, Asbjørn Følstad, Marianna Obrist, David Geerts, Rüdiger Berg
      Pages 50-57
    4. Multimedia Source Management for Remote and Local Edition Environments

      • Alejandro González, Ana Cerezo, David Jiménez, José Manuel Menéndez
      Pages 58-66
  5. UcMedia 2009 - Session 3: Multimedia & User Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
    2. In Search of the Uncanny Valley

      • Frank E. Pollick
      Pages 69-78
    3. Investigating the Use of the Experience Clip Method

      • Jeroen Vanattenhoven, Dries De Roeck
      Pages 79-86
    4. Natural-Language-Based Conversion of Images to Mobile Multimedia Experiences

      • Bernhard Reiterer, Cyril Concolato, Hermann Hellwagner
      Pages 87-90
  6. UcMedia 2009 - Session 4: Multimedia Search and Retrieval

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
    2. Provision of Multimedia Content Search and Retrieval Services to Users on the Move

      • Dimitrios Giakoumis, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Petros Daras, George Hassapis
      Pages 93-100
    3. Ground-Truth-Less Comparison of Selected Content-Based Image Retrieval Measures

      • RafaÅ‚ Fraczek, MichaÅ‚ Grega, Nicolas Liebau, MikoÅ‚aj Leszczuk, Andree Luedtke, Lucjan Janowski et al.
      Pages 101-108
    4. Exploiting Complementary Resources for Cross-Discipline Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval

      • Virginia Fernandez, Krishna Chandramouli, Ebroul Izquierdo
      Pages 109-116
  7. UcMedia 2009 - Session 5: Interactive TV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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About this book

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference, UCMedia 2009, which was held on 9-11 December 2009 at Hotel Novotel Venezia Mestre Castellana in Venice, Italy. The conference`s focus was on forms and production, delivery, access, discovery and consumption of user centric media. After a thorough review process of the papers received, 23 were accepted from open call for the main conference and 20 papers for the workshops.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece

    Petros Daras

  • CREATE-NET, Trento, Italia

    Oscar Mayora Ibarra

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