Journals and Books

November 2009	Eurescom Message 3/2009, Cover theme on "The networked home of the future" Peter Stollenmayer, Doug Williams http://www.eurescom.eu/message/
November 2009	Book chapter "Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience" Pablo Cesar, CWI http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/book/978-1-84882-700-4
September 2009	Journal article in Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction "The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Towards Interactivity" Pablo Cesar, CWI http://www.nowpublishers.com/hci/
July 2009	Article in TOMCCAP "Fragment, Tag, Enrich, and Send: Enhancing the Social Sharing of Videos" Pablo Cesar, CWI http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1556134.1556136
July 2009	Article in Multimedia Systems Journal "Leveraging user impact: an architecture for secondary screens usage in interactive television" Pablo Cesar, CWI http://www.springerlink.com/content/4l17007214988491/
July 2009	Article in Multimedia Tools and Applications "SMIL State: an architecture and implementation for adaptive time-based web applications" Jack Jansen, CWI http://www.springerlink.com/content/7772707226588243/
May 2009	Social Interactive Television: Immersive Shared Experiences and Perspectives Book published by IGI Global Publishing Edited by Pablo Cesar, CWI http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=33443
15 April 2009	Media Fragments URI 1.0, W3C This document describes use cases and requirements for the development of the Media Fragments 1.0 specification. It also specifies the syntax for constructing media fragment URIs and explains how to handle them when used over the HTTP protocol. It finally includes a technology survey for addressing fragments of multimedia document. Jack Jansen, CWI http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-media-frags-reqs-20090430
December 2008	W3C published the 3rd version of its standard for interactive multimedia presentations, SMIL 3.0. The "Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language" allows video, images, text, and hypertext links to be combined into interactive presentations, with fine-grain control of layout and timing. http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-SMIL3-20081201/ Full press release and testimonials can be found at: http://www.w3.org/2008/12/smil3-pressrelease.html
2 December 2008	Article in ACM Computers in Entertainment "Interactive Documentaries: A Golden Age" Marian Ursu, Goldsmiths, University of London
1 December 2008	International Recommendation (Standard) W3C "SMIL 3.0" http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL3/
November 2008	SMIL 3.0 Book "Flexible Multimedia for Web, Mobile Devices and Daisy Talking Books" Dick C.A. Bulterman and Lloyd Rutledge Published November 2008, 536 p. 146 figs., Hardcover, ISBN: 978-3-540-78546-0 http://www.xmediasmil.net/
November 2008	The AMBULANT Open SMIL Player is an open-source media player with support for SMIL 3.0. AMBULANT is intended for researchers and developers who want an source-code player upon which they can build higher-level systems solutions for authoring and content integration, or within which they can add new or extended support for networking and media transport components. http://old-www.cwi.nl/projects/Ambulant/distPlayer.html
30 October 2008	Journal article in Multimedia Tools and Applications: "Metadata-driven interactive web video assembly" Rene Kaiser, Michael Hausenblas, Joanneum Research http://www.springerlink.com/content/gl1g2904228u62g1/
1 October 2008	Book article in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP): "Interactive TV Narratives: Opportunities, Progress and Challenges" Marian Ursu, Goldsmiths, University of London http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1412198
6-7 December 2007	What will multimedia in the digital home look like in 5 years' time (pdf and video) "ACM Computers in Entertainment" Ian Kegel, BT http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1350843.1350845
6-7 December 2007	Paper on social television and user interaction (pdf) "ACM Computers in Entertainment" Pablo Cesar, CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica) http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1350843.1350847