User Centric Media: First International Conference, UCMedia 2009, Venice, Italy, December 9-11, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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InterMedia: Towards Truly User-Centric Convergence of Multimedia....Pages 3-10
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From Photos to Memories: A User-Centric Authoring Tool for Telling Stories with Your Photos....Pages 13-20
User-Centric Context-Aware Mobile Applications for Embodied Music Listening....Pages 21-30
Sync’n’Move: Social Interaction Based on Music and Gesture....Pages 31-38
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From Coach Potatoes to TV Prosumers: Community-Oriented Content Creation for IDTV....Pages 41-49
Innovation in Online Communities – Towards Community-Centric Design....Pages 50-57
Multimedia Source Management for Remote and Local Edition Environments....Pages 58-66
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In Search of the Uncanny Valley....Pages 69-78
Investigating the Use of the Experience Clip Method....Pages 79-86
Natural-Language-Based Conversion of Images to Mobile Multimedia Experiences....Pages 87-90
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Provision of Multimedia Content Search and Retrieval Services to Users on the Move....Pages 93-100
Ground-Truth-Less Comparison of Selected Content-Based Image Retrieval Measures....Pages 101-108
Exploiting Complementary Resources for Cross-Discipline Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval....Pages 109-116
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Content Personalization System Based on User Profiling for Mobile Broadcasting Television....Pages 119-126
WiMAX TV: Possibilities and Challenges....Pages 127-136
Personalized Semantic News: Combining Semantics and Television....Pages 137-140
Service and Content Metadata Systems in Interactive TV Domains....Pages 141-150
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Efficient Scalable Video Streaming over P2P Network....Pages 153-160
Rate Adaptation Techniques for WebTV....Pages 161-168
An Adaptive Control System for Interactive Virtual Environment Content Delivery to Handheld Devices....Pages 169-178
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VirtualLife: Secure Identity Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems....Pages 181-188
Overview of the Legal Issues in Virtual Worlds....Pages 189-198
Selective Motion Estimation for Surveillance Videos....Pages 199-206
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Personalization of Media Delivery in Seamless Content Delivery Networks....Pages 209-213
Shopping Assistant....Pages 214-217
Streaming Content Wars: Download and Play Strikes Back....Pages 218-226
A Personalized HTTP Adaptive Streaming WebTV....Pages 227-233
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Scalable IPTV Delivery to Home via VPN....Pages 237-246
Location-Aware and User-Centric Touristic Media....Pages 247-254
Optimal Ranking for Video Recommendation....Pages 255-258
Gaming Platform for Running Games on Low-End Devices....Pages 259-262
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Virtual Persons + Virtual Goods = Real Problems....Pages 265-270
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A Comparison of Three Virtual World Platforms for the Purposes of Learning Support in VirtualLife....Pages 273-278
Transforming Legal Rules into Online Virtual World Rules: A Case Study in the VirtualLife Platform....Pages 279-284
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Reverie and Socialization for the ‘Electro-Nomadic Cyborg’....Pages 287-292
Augmented Public Transit: Integrating Approaches to Interface Design for a Digitally Augmented City....Pages 293-297
Memoirs of Togetherness from Audio Logs....Pages 298-301
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Automating Financial Surveillance....Pages 305-311
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Cross-Lingual Analysis of Concerns and Reports on Crimes in Blogs....Pages 315-320
Automated Event Extraction in the Domain of Border Security....Pages 321-326
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Security Level Classification of Confidential Documents Written in Turkish....Pages 329-334
Signalling Events in Text Streams....Pages 335-339
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A Proposal for a Multilingual Epidemic Surveillance System....Pages 343-348
Monitoring Social Attitudes Using Rectitude Gains....Pages 349-354
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Is the Social Television Experience Similar to the Social Online Video Experience? Extending Domain-Specific Sociability Heuristics to a New Domain....Pages 357-360
Using Social Science in Design....Pages 361-365
User-Centric Evaluation Framework for Multimedia Recommender Systems....Pages 366-369
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