TY - GEN
T1 - Session continuity and splitting of multimedia applications using qualitative user preferences
AU - Mukhtar, Hamid
AU - Belaïd, Djamel
AU - Bernard, Guy
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - With the increasing demand for multimedia contents and with the increased usage of small hand-held devices, a user in a home network has a number of devices at hand that may offer similar multimedia services but with varying capabilities. The user may choose one device for using a particular multimedia service at one time, and change to another device at another time. The user may, however, continue using the same service and maintain their previous session on the new device without restarting a new session. Although this can be achieved using one of the session continuity approaches described in the literature, in this paper we propose how user preferences can be used for selection of a device for session continuity. A qualitative preference model is suggested, which is then translated into a quantitative model to choose the most appropriate device for user.
AB - With the increasing demand for multimedia contents and with the increased usage of small hand-held devices, a user in a home network has a number of devices at hand that may offer similar multimedia services but with varying capabilities. The user may choose one device for using a particular multimedia service at one time, and change to another device at another time. The user may, however, continue using the same service and maintain their previous session on the new device without restarting a new session. Although this can be achieved using one of the session continuity approaches described in the literature, in this paper we propose how user preferences can be used for selection of a device for session continuity. A qualitative preference model is suggested, which is then translated into a quantitative model to choose the most appropriate device for user.
KW - Device selection
KW - Multimedia user tasks
KW - Pervasive environments
KW - User preferences
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77950805651&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1710035.1710087
DO - 10.1145/1710035.1710087
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77950805651
SN - 9781605585369
T3 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Technology, Application and Systems, Mobility '09
BT - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Technology, Application and Systems, Mobility '09
T2 - 6th International Conference on Mobile Technology, Application and Systems, Mobility '09
Y2 - 2 September 2009 through 4 September 2009
ER -