Abstract
The emerging multiple media portals accessed by a variety
of terminals require semi- and fully
automatic procedures for managing the material. The IMU
trial system, developed in this work,
automatizes parts of the news content acquirement and
processing work of the portal web master. The
IMU active proxy server extracts the metadata from news
web sites and from the television news
broadcasts through video analysis making an automatic
classification and linking of related articles and
TV clips possible. The deeply integrated material is
partioned into news composites called channels,
which can be personalised by the user. The automatically
computed event and media calendar allows
for a new type of integration of news and up-coming
events. The news content is refined by setting up
filters for monitoring of the business environment.
Through our interfaces for PC, TV, WAP and MP3
terminals, the user accesses the same news content at
work, at home in the living room and on the move.
To balance the automatic procedures with journalistic
judgement, we created web tools for human
editors to control and override the automatic operations
and for creating new content. The community
feature enables groups to share news and to discuss
topics internally. The trial including closely 400
users with PC, TV and WAP terminals showed a stable
interest in the service. The typical user retrieved
a few fresh articles including a TV clip at prime time in
the evening. The television set user retrieved
two times more material than the PC user, but
proportionally less news. The most popular channels for
the TV-user were TV programme schedules and TV clips. The
community channels attracted the TV set
users. Personalization was used scarcely and searches
even more seldom. The interviews showed that the
system was well accepted, except for navigating in the
TV-IMU application with the remote controller.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Electronic Publishing '01 |
| Subtitle of host publication | 2001 in the Digital Publishing Odyssey |
| Editors | Arvid Hübler, Peter Linde, John W.T. Smith |
| Publisher | IOS Press |
| Pages | 231-247 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1-58603-191-0 |
| Publication status | Published - 2001 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | 5th International ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing - Canterbury, United Kingdom Duration: 5 Jul 2001 → 7 Jul 2001 |
Conference
| Conference | 5th International ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated title | ELPUB 2001 |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Canterbury |
| Period | 5/07/01 → 7/07/01 |