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Ambient bloom: new business, content, design and models to increase the semantic ambient media experience

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Semantic ambient media are the novel trend in the world of media reaching from the pioneering subareas such as ambient advertising to the new and emerging subareas such as ambient assisted living. They will likely shape the upcoming years in terms of modeling smart environments and also media consumption and interaction. This work analyzes semantic ambient media by considering business models, content and media, interaction design and consumer experience, and methods and techniques that are important to create this new form of media. Discussion is led using the state-of-the-art event of the semantic ambient media, which is the annual international workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME). The study also creates a vision for how ambient media will evolve and how they will look like in the future decade.

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This work is partially financed by the European Union, the European Social Fund and by the European Commission under LiWA (IST 216267) and ARCOMEM (IST 270239), the European Social Fund.

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  1. Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Intelligent Systems, Jamova c. 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Bogdan Pogorelc & Matjaž Gams

  2. Špica International d. o. o., Pot k sejmišču 33, 1231, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Bogdan Pogorelc & Matjaž Gams

  3. Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Jamova 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Bogdan Pogorelc & Matjaž Gams

  4. EMMi Lab., Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere, Finland

    Artur Lugmayr

  5. University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, Magdeburg, Germany

    Björn Stockleben

  6. University “Stefan cel Mare” of Suceava, Suceava, Romania

    Radu-Daniel Vatavu

  7. L3S Research Center, Hanover, Germany

    Nina Tahmasebi, Thomas Risse & Gideon Zenz

  8. Christian Doppler Laboratory, Software Engineering Integration for Flexible Automation Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Estefanía Serral

  9. Iskratel, d.o.o., Kranj, Slovenia

    Emilija Stojmenova & Bojan Imperl

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Pogorelc, B., Lugmayr, A., Stockleben, B. et al. Ambient bloom: new business, content, design and models to increase the semantic ambient media experience. Multimed Tools Appl 66, 7–32 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-012-1228-4

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