Integrating Interactive TV Services and the Web through Semantics

2012 ◽  
pp. 239-256
Author(s):  
Vassileios Tsetsos ◽  
Antonis Papadimitriou ◽  
Christos Anagnostopoulos ◽  
Stathes Hadjiefthymiades
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Content Delivery ◽  
Formal Modeling ◽  
Interactive Tv ◽  
The Future ◽  
Intelligent Behavior ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Web

Interactive TV has started to penetrate broadcasting markets, providing a new user experience through novel services to subscribers and new revenue opportunities for companies. Personalization and intelligent behavior, such as proactive content delivery are considered key features for the services of the future TV. However, most of the work in this area is limited to personalization of electronic program guides and advanced program recommendation. In this article, the authors adopt a more horizontal approach and describe the application of concepts, practices and modern Web trends to the TV domain in the context of the POLYSEMA platform. A key characteristic of this approach is the formal modeling of multimedia and user semantics that enables novel TV services. Specifically, Semantic Web methodologies are employed (e.g., ontologies and rules) while compatibility with the MPEG-7 standard is also pursued. The paper describes the overall architecture of the platform, provides implementation details and investigates business issues.

Integrating Interactive TV Services and the Web through Semantics

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Vassileios Tsetsos ◽  
Antonis Papadimitriou ◽  
Christos Anagnostopoulos ◽  
Stathes Hadjiefthymiades
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Content Delivery ◽  
Formal Modeling ◽  
Interactive Tv ◽  
The Future ◽  
Intelligent Behavior ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Web

Interactive TV has started to penetrate broadcasting markets, providing a new user experience through novel services to subscribers and new revenue opportunities for companies. Personalization and intelligent behavior, such as proactive content delivery are considered key features for the services of the future TV. However, most of the work in this area is limited to personalization of electronic program guides and advanced program recommendation. In this article, the authors adopt a more horizontal approach and describe the application of concepts, practices and modern Web trends to the TV domain in the context of the POLYSEMA platform. A key characteristic of this approach is the formal modeling of multimedia and user semantics that enables novel TV services. Specifically, Semantic Web methodologies are employed (e.g., ontologies and rules) while compatibility with the MPEG-7 standard is also pursued. The paper describes the overall architecture of the platform, provides implementation details and investigates business issues.

A semantic continuum on the semantic web

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIKE USCHOLD
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Web

In the coming years, the Web is expected to evolve from a structure containing information resources that have little or no explicit semantics to a structure having a rich semantic infrastructure. The key defining feature that is intended to distinguish the future Semantic Web from today's Web is that the content of the Web will be usable by machines (i.e. software agents). Meaning needs to be communicated between agents who advertise and/or require the ability to perform tasks on the Web. Agents also need to determine the meaning of passive (i.e. non-agent) information resources on the web to perform these tasks.

User Experience Measurement

2021 ◽  
pp. 250-282
Author(s):  
Oryina Kingsley Akputu ◽  
Kingsley Friday Attai
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Competitive Market ◽  
The Future ◽  
Software Interfaces ◽  
The Web ◽  
Metrics And Measurement

User experience (UX) measurement has become a powerful component in determining the usability success or failure of products or services that are marketed via e-business channels. Succcess in the e-business does not only depend on building stellar software interfaces but also on competitive receptiveness to customers experience or feedback. Only e-businesses that can effectively measure the UX to forecast and understand the future are able to stay afloat and not get drown in the highly competitive market. The development of various UX metrics and measurement techniques have helped to quantify user feedack but most of these rely on different contextual assumptions. As a result, choosing appropriate UX techniques that match a particular business need becomes difficult for most e-business concerns. This chapter provides an overview of recent UX measurement techniques that are relevant to the e-business settings in the Web 2.0 era. The objective is to elaborate on what tools that have been employed in literature to measure UX and possibly how these can be employed in practice.

Understanding Semantic Web: a conceptual model

2015 ◽  
Vol 64 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 82-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Calaresu ◽  
Ali Shiri
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
The Body ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Web Architecture ◽  
The Web

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore and conceptualize the Semantic Web as a term that has been widely mentioned in the literature of library and information science. More specifically, its aim is to shed light on the evolution of the Web and to highlight a previously proposed means of attempting to improve automated manipulation of Web-based data in the context of a rapidly expanding base of both users and digital content. Design/methodology/approach – The conceptual analysis presented in this paper adopts a three-dimensional model for the discussion of Semantic Web. The first dimension focuses on Semantic Web’s basic nature, purpose and history, as well as the current state and limitations of modern search systems and related software agents. The second dimension focuses on critical knowledge structures such as taxonomies, thesauri and ontologies which are understood as fundamental elements in the creation of a Semantic Web architecture. In the third dimension, an alternative conceptual model is proposed, one, which unlike more commonly prevalent Semantic Web models, offers a greater emphasis on describing the proposed structure from an interpretive viewpoint, rather than a technical one. This paper adopts an interpretive, historical and conceptual approach to the notion of the Semantic Web by reviewing the literature and by analyzing the developments associated with the Web over the past three decades. It proposes a simplified conceptual model for easy understanding. Findings – The paper provides a conceptual model of the Semantic Web that encompasses four key strata, namely, the body of human users, the body of software applications facilitating creation and consumption of documents, the body of documents themselves and a proposed layer that would improve automated manipulation of Web-based data by the software applications. Research limitations/implications – This paper will facilitate a better conceptual understanding of the Semantic Web, and thereby contribute, in a small way, to the larger body of discourse surrounding it. The conceptual model will provide a reference point for education and research purposes. Originality/value – This paper provides an original analysis of both conceptual and technical aspects of Semantic Web. The proposed conceptual model provides a new perspective on this subject.

scholarly journals Web 2.0 vs. the Semantic Web: A Philosophical Assessment

Episteme ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciano Floridi
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Clear Explanation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information And Communication

ABSTRACTThe paper develops some of the conclusions, reached in Floridi (2007), concerning the future developments of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and their impact on our lives. The two main theses supported in that article were that, as the information society develops, the threshold between online and offline is becoming increasingly blurred, and that once there won't be any significant difference, we shall gradually re-conceptualise ourselves not as cyborgs but rather as inforgs, i.e. socially connected, informational organisms. In this paper, I look at the development of the so-called Semantic Web and Web 2.0 from this perspective and try to forecast their future. Regarding the Semantic Web, I argue that it is a clear and well-defined project, which, despite some authoritative views to the contrary, is not a promising reality and will probably fail in the same way AI has failed in the past. Regarding Web 2.0, I argue that, although it is a rather ill-defined project, which lacks a clear explanation of its nature and scope, it does have the potentiality of becoming a success (and indeed it is already, as part of the new phenomenon of Cloud Computing) because it leverages the only semantic engines available so far in nature, us. I conclude by suggesting what other changes might be expected in the future of our digital environment.

The future of user experience education

interactions ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Peer
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
The Future ◽  
Experience Education

scholarly journals The read–write Linked Data Web

2013 ◽  
Vol 371 (1987) ◽  
pp. 20120513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Berners-Lee ◽  
Kieron O’Hara
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Linked Open Data ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Web

This paper discusses issues that will affect the future development of the Web, either increasing its power and utility, or alternatively suppressing its development. It argues for the importance of the continued development of the Linked Data Web, and describes the use of linked open data as an important component of that. Second, the paper defends the Web as a read–write medium, and goes on to consider how the read–write Linked Data Web could be achieved.

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