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Title: | Synchronous MediaSharing: Social and Communal Media Consumption for Geographically Dispersed Users |
Authors: | Wijnants, Maarten Dierckx, Jeroen Quax, Peter Lamotte, Wim |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | ACM |
Citation: | Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2012), p. 107-112 |
Abstract: | Real-time social interaction possibilities are increasingly dis-
appearing from the media consumption process. A decisive
contributing factor to this tendency is growing user location
disparity. This paper proposes synchronous MediaSharing
(sMS), a distributed, purely web-based framework consist-
ing of APIs plus a back-end that enables geographically sep-
arated persons to socially consume multimedia content in
a synchronized fashion. The sMS service currently resides
in a proof-of-concept stage, awaiting qualitative evaluation
by means of user experience research methods, yet its un-
derlying network infrastructure as well as the majority of
its principal functional components have already been de-
signed, implemented and evaluated. A chief innovation of
the system is that its exclusive reliance on open web stan-
dards warrants cross-platform support and unlocks seam-
less content synchronization across the physical and virtual
worlds. We outline our vision for the sMS service, motivate
the need for such a system, discuss its current implemen-
tation, present tentative practical results that con rm the
feasibility and validity of our design, and overview the sMS
feature roadmap. The sMS functionality has apparent util-
ity in education, training and professional settings, but also
in the eld of entertainment and the recreational market. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/13741 |
DOI: | 10.1145/2155555.2155574 |
ISBN: | 978-1-4503-1131-1 |
Category: | C1 |
Type: | Proceedings Paper |
Appears in Collections: | Research publications
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