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This chapter presents an ambient intelligence framework whose goal is to facilitate the information needs of mobility impaired users on the move. This framework couples users with geographically distributed services and the corresponding multimedia content, enabling access to context-sensitive information based on user geographic location and the use case under consideration. It provides a multi-modal facility that is realized through a set of mobile devices and user interfaces that address the needs of ten different types of user impairments. The overall ambient intelligence framework enables users who are equipped with mobile devices to access multimedia content in order to undertake activities relevant to one or more of the following domains: transportation, tourism and leisure, personal support services, work, business, education, social relations and community building. User experience is being explored against those activities through a specific usage scenario.
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OSGi stands for Open Service Gateway initiative, now an obsolete name.
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Kehagias, D.D., Giakoumis, D., Tzovaras, D., Bekiaris, E., Wiethoff, M. (2010). An Ambient Intelligence Framework for the Provision of Geographically Distributed Multimedia Content to Mobility Impaired Users. In: Marcus, A., Roibás, A., Sala, R. (eds) Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-701-1_11
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