An Adaptation Architecture Dedicated to Personalized Management of Multimedia Documents

Abstract

Currently, the democratization of wireless communication means coupled with the advanced technological hardware can offer portable devices that fit in the hand with a very large capacity of computation such as PDAs, mobile phones and even wireless sensors. The users' preferences, in which the document is presented, may need to be considered because the adaption of multimedia content through them is an important aspect of Quality of Service. Our research work focuses on the adaptation of multimedia documents with a strong interest on the interaction based on the user preferences. In this paper, we propose formal definitions of concepts related to the technical adaptation that selects a relevant policy in order to perform an adapted document in the situation where conflicts are detected between the heterogeneity of multimedia document properties and the user needs. We present also an architecture for adapting multimedia contents based on the preferences and we develop a user preference interface. We illustrate the proposed approach with a case study.