Together with prof.dr.ir Loe Feijs, I attended the Designing
Designers 2006 conference held on Aprial 9, in Milano, Italy.
Aside the conference, we also visited the impressive Milano design
week.
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IPML: Extending SMIL for Distributed Multimedia Presentations
Jun Hu and Loe Feijs
Abstract This paper addresses issues of distributing multimedia presentations in an ambient intelligent environment, exams the existing technologies and proposes IPML, a markup language that extends SMIL for distributed settings. It uses a powerful metaphor of play, with which the timing and mapping issues in distributed presentations are easily covered in a natural way.
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DOI: 10.1007/11890881_8
Distributing Multimedia Elements to Multiple Networked Devices
Maddy Janse, Peter van der Stok, and Jun Hu
Abstract. Two applications from different projects in which video content is distributed over in-home networked devices are presented. Multiple displays and ambience objects are used to display interactive content. Major issues concern the design of appropriate evaluation methodologies, the use of perceived video quality to achieve efficient resource allocation and the subjective role of content.
Wiki your web
I was invited to give a talk about internet collaborative
environments at VCWI 2005 IT Seminar (IT around you, today and
tomorrow), which took place at TU Eindhoven, on Saturday, September 17,
2005. I introduced some basics about Wiki: Writable webs empower people
to share knowledge effectively and to be more productive.
- Wiki, a Blog (Weblog) for groups: Communities can organize and share content in an organic and free manner
- Extended
with the right set of functionality, a Wiki can be applied to
distributed teams to schedule, manage, document, and support their
daily activities - The web as a whiteboard for everybody.
Presence 2005
I presented our work on culture differences in presence in PRESENCE 2005 conference, which took place at University College London, September 21-23, 2005.
User Experience Evaluation of a Distributed Interactive Movie
Jun Hu, Maddy Janse, Hyun-joo Kong
The effect of presenting a distributed interactive movie at different levels of control and distribution on the end user’s fun and presence experience was studied. The results suggest that an increased level of end-user control on the flow in the video increases the level of the user’s experience and impacts the feeling of presence significantly. The effects of distribution are less clear and are very much depending on the presentation devices and the content modality. These results are discussed in terms of the measurement instruments and the experimental design, and suggestions are made for further research.
Pervasive 2005
I attended the workshop User Experience Design for Pervasive Computing in the Pervasive 2005 conference, together with Christoph Bartneck, presented our work on presence and distributed media, in Munich, May 11, 2005.
IST 2004: When cognition meets design and technology – SOC’s [SOC’s]
IST 2004 Event, 15-17 November 2004, “Netherlands Congress Centre”, The Hague. I had a poster there and demonstrated the robot Tony.
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AAMAS 2003
Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and
Multiagent Systems, MONDAY 14 JULY – FRIDAY 18 JULY 2003, Melbourne.
Not only seeing the little penguins and the big kangaroos, I also
presented the paper "An agent-based architecture for distributed interfaces and timed media in a storytelling application".
The British airways lost my luggage on the way to Melbourne, and I was
in my summer shorts when I arrived the winter Australia. I immediately
got cold. And on the way back, the British airways was on strike. What
a company.
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Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference
The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest Congress
Centre, 20-24 May 2003, Budapest, HUNGARY. A big event with a lot of
internet geeks, and I was on the same lunch table with Tim Berners-Lee. He was selling his idea of semantic web, in his opinion, that was the next big thing to come. I presented my work on distributed storytelling to the conference.
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