Semantic IPTV – Smart Media Assistant
In the world of digital media, the user is bombarded with content, e.g. user generated videos, live TV broadcasts, podcasts, e-books, trailers, sports events, TV series, news, and many more. It is as if the user is in a digital jungle without a map and a compass. In this analogy, semantics can be the map, and smart tools utilizing semantics for profiling and recommendations can be the GPS.
The vision of Semantic IPTV [1][2] is to adapt this approach in order to provide a personalized experience and guidance to media consumers, in the form of a quadruple play application (SMA – Smart Media Assistant) that brings cross-domain media data together, supports different fixed and mobile environments, and integrates social interactions with the users’ media experience.
Main features of the SMA application are
- Live TV, Video, Streaming, Recording, and Upload
- Content Recommendations for
- Live TV program, Videos, smart EPG view
- Automatically generated personalized channels (“MyTV”)
- Automated recordings
- Advertisement : matches content and user profiles
- Interactivity
- Server sided triggered instant advertisement / recommendation pushes with user feedback & opinion pools
- Tagging, Voting, Rating from the user side.
- Additional channels for social interaction (chat, channel talk, A&V telephony, ...)
- Mobility
- integrating mobile devices
- UI and session migration and adaptation
