Using context to assist the adaptation of protected multimedia content in virtual collaboration applications

—This paper proposes a framework for a virtual classroom application based on a Virtual Collaboration System (VCS), which is being developed under the VISNET II Network of Excellence (NoE)1 , and discusses adaptation technologies that enable seamless access to classroom sessions while intellectual property and digital rights are managed. The proposed virtual classroom framework enables academic institutions to conduct their collaborative lecture series, to which registered students will be able to attend remotely and interactively over the Internet. Furthermore, the general public may also follow the classroom sessions under certain restrictions imposed by the participating institutions. In order to facilitate seamless access to a heterogeneous audience that is composed of users with various preferences and privileges accessing the classroom sessions over different network infrastructures and using terminal devices with diverse capabilities, context-aware content adaptation is requir...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: COLCOM
• Authors: Maria Teresa Andrade, Hemantha Kodikara Arachchi, Sabih Nasir, Safak Dogan, Halil Uzuner, Ahmet M. Kondoz, Jaime Delgado, Eva Rodríguez, Anna Carreras, Tim Masterton, Rachel Craddock
• Keywords: Classroom Sessions, COLCOM 2007, Context-aware Content Adaptation, Distributed And Parallel Computing, Virtual Classroom