Semantics-based framework for personalized access to TV content: The iFanzy use case

Abstract

The ICT landscape is developing into a highly-interactive distributed environment in which people interact with multiple devices (e.g. portable devices such as mobile phones and home equipment such as TV's) and multiple applications (e.g. computer programs such as Web browsers and dedicated Web services) [1]. Globally, the industry is being driven by the shift away from old models - from physical space to digital space. New methods emerge for getting content such as TV programs via the Web. Almost half of the people want to watch TV content on their PC's; they want to make a bridge between a TV and a PC, perhaps even sitting in a home office [2]. The information overload is enormous and the content presented is hardly adapted to the prior knowledge, to the preferences and to the current situation of the user. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.