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Context-aware multimedia services modeling: an e-Health perspective

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In this paper we present an e-Health framework model that can dynamically provide context-aware multimedia services to a user. The framework collects live user context by analyzing sensory data obtained from a body sensor network and multimedia content available from live heterogeneous Internet-based services. Finally, we share the implementation details and test results.

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The authors would like to thank Multimedia Communications Lab at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany for collecting sensory data. The authors would also like to acknowledge the financial support of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The authors would like to thank Dr. Heung Nam Kim and Dr. Wail Gueaieb of MCRLab of University of Ottawa for their assistance. This research was supported by the NSTIP strategic technologies program (11-INF1703-10) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Rahman, M.A., Hossain, M.S. & El Saddik, A. Context-aware multimedia services modeling: an e-Health perspective. Multimed Tools Appl 73, 1147–1176 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-013-1595-5

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