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Socialising around media. Improving the second screen experience through semantic analysis, context awareness and dynamic communities
SAM is a social media platform that enhances the experience of watching video content in
a conventional living room setting, with a service that lets the viewer use a second screen
(such as a smart phone) to interact with content, context and communities related to the
main video content. This article describes three key functionalities used in the SAM platform in order to create an advanced interactive and social second screen experience for
users: semantic analysis, context awareness and dynamic communities. Both dataset-based
and end user evaluations of system functionalities are reported in order to determine the
effectiveness and efficiency of the components directly involved and the platform as a
whole
CHORUS Deliverable 2.2: Second report - identification of multi-disciplinary key issues for gap analysis toward EU multimedia search engines roadmap
After addressing the state-of-the-art during the first year of Chorus and establishing the existing landscape in
multimedia search engines, we have identified and analyzed gaps within European research effort during our second year.
In this period we focused on three directions, notably technological issues, user-centred issues and use-cases and socio-
economic and legal aspects. These were assessed by two central studies: firstly, a concerted vision of functional breakdown
of generic multimedia search engine, and secondly, a representative use-cases descriptions with the related discussion on
requirement for technological challenges. Both studies have been carried out in cooperation and consultation with the
community at large through EC concertation meetings (multimedia search engines cluster), several meetings with our
Think-Tank, presentations in international conferences, and surveys addressed to EU projects coordinators as well as
National initiatives coordinators. Based on the obtained feedback we identified two types of gaps, namely core
technological gaps that involve research challenges, and “enablers”, which are not necessarily technical research
challenges, but have impact on innovation progress. New socio-economic trends are presented as well as emerging legal
challenges
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