Designing Ubiquitous Personalized TV-Anytime Services (original) (raw)

Personalisation technologies for the digital TV world

2000

Abstract. The information overload problem is becoming a serious issue on the Internet and users are finding it increasingly difficult to quickly locate the right information at the right time. Content personalisation techniques may provide a useful solution by enabling information services to respond to the implicit and explicit preferences of individual users.

A context-aware architecture for IPTV services personalization

J. Internet Serv. Inf. Secur., 2013

TV and video services landscape is currently undergoing significant changes. Traditional TV broadcasting model is supplemented and often even replaced by digital content distribution services over the Internet. As a result of this trend, a range of services and contents available for users is rapidly expanding. As a side-effect, designing efficient user interfaces for discovering the content, as well as for manipulating associated interactive services, becomes more and more cumbersome. Pervasive computing and context-awareness principles seem to be promising for making user interaction with the system more seamless and fluid. This paper discusses context-awareness as a new trend for services personalization, defining the meaning of ”context” and different contextual data relevant for IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) services. A novel architecture for unified storage and processing situational data in IPTV service domain is presented, together with discussion of its implementation...

Video Containers: A System for the On-Demand Storage, Delivery, and Management of Television Programs

2000

Television programs (both broadcast and cable) have pre-determined starting times and durations, which often do not match the preferred viewing times of most people. Also, several programs of interest might have overlapping times. To alleviate this rigid viewing situation, the paper proposes a system for the on-demand, online storage of user selected TV programs, and their subsequent management and delivery,