The Chairs of the User Centric Content Technologies track – Nozha Boujemaa (Inria), Alex Jaimes (Yahoo! Research), Jovanka Adzic (Telecom Italia) – are pleased to unveil today the Program Committee members of the track:

• Arjen de Vries, CWI – Netherlands
• Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL – Switzerland
• Volker Hahn, Fraunhofer IGD – Germany
• Alexis Joly, INRIA – France
• Ahmet Kondoz, University of Surrey – Uk
• Henning Muller, HUG – Switzerland
• Ralf Neudel, IRT – Germany
• Jean-Charles Point, JCP Consult – France
• Francoise Prêteux, MINES ParisTech – France
• Raquel Navarro Prieto, Fundacion Barelona Media – Spain
• Nicu Sebe, Univ. Trento – Italy
• Nadia Thalman, University of Geneva – Switzerland
• Amedeo Zuccaro, STMicroelectronics – Italy

Distributed Multimedia Content will be plentiful all over the Future Internet. This NEM track will address innovative User-Centric Content technologies and services. The community is facing several challenges to enhance multimedia content generation, mining and presentation technologies toward intuitive user content consumption in real time. Resource heterogeneity related to diversity of connected devices, information sources, infrastructures, users’ communities, context and mobility are bottlenecks that need to be addressed since they impact the way content is coded, delivered, and shared in the Future Media Internet.

The quality of experience and usability of services are crucial issues that strongly impact the success of new services and new content. Immersive and smart user interfaces together with the ability to offer content to users taking their context into account will be critical factors for the success of Future Media Internet Services. In this NEM track, enabling factors for the deployment of such technologies and innovative services will be addressed.

In particular, this workshop will target advanced implementations and experiences toward applying research results to real-life situations, in any of the following example areas or in other application domains where content management and mining are important: Government, Health, Smart and Assisted Living, …
Topics covered with this workshop will include (but are not limited to):

• Content search, discovery and mining
• Socio-cultural factors in the creation, consumption, and sharing of content
• User behaviour, engagement, and audience measurements
• Interaction, Immersion, 3D, Augmented Reality, …
• Creative Content Generation,
• Innovative Gaming applications and services: content rendering and interaction
• Connected Media Devices
• Social Networks: collaborative tagging, user-generated content mining and exploitation
• Quality of Experience and Usability
• Personalizing, Profiling & Recommendation mechanisms
• Context Aware Content
• Content Analysis and Enrichment, meta-data Extraction & Management,…
• Applications & Services: eCitizen, eHealth, Smart Living, eElderly, …