Device-Driven Presentation of Multimedia Content

Definition

Device-driven presentation of multimedia content deals with the issue how can multimedia content be made available to end users considering the devices, display characteristics, processing capabilities, and connectivity.

For some time the only way to access and work with digital content was the personal computer or workstation. Not only is the volume of digital content (including text, pictures, audio, video, or other multimedia content) growing, but in particular the variety of devices that are available for presentation of digital content. Thus there is the need to deliver content that is adapted to the different characteristics and capabilities, i.e., delivery context, of the devices. Delivery context as described in [1] is “a set of attributes that characterizes the capabilities of the access mechanism, the preferences of the user and other aspects of the context into which a web page is to be delivered.” Generalizing this definition for any kind of presentation, the...