Title :
A social-aware multimedia system for interactive cultural and educational experiences
Author :
Konstanteli, Kleopatra ; Voulodimos, Athanasios ; Psychas, Konstantinos ; Nicolopoulos, Dimitri ; Andreadis, Anthousis ; Crowle, Simon ; Osbourne, D. ; Yannopoulos, Angelos ; Wallace, Margeaux ; Varvarigou, Theodora
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece
Abstract :
The paper shows how different concepts and technologies, such as high quality multimedia content production and delivery, social media interaction, and methodologies for monitoring and analysing social network activity, can be practically combined with traditional virtual reality installations into an innovative experimental system that enhances the experience of the visitors in cultural educational centers. Apart from offering a modern, immersive, richer experience to the visitors, the proposed system involves significant benefits for the organizers as well, supplying them with valuable feedback extracted from the monitoring and analysis mechanisms. The experimental system has been successfully deployed and used in the Foundation of the Hellenic World cultural center.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; cultural aspects; interactive systems; multimedia computing; social networking (online); virtual reality; Hellenic world cultural center; cultural educational centers; interactive cultural experiences; interactive educational experiences; multimedia content delivery; multimedia content production; social aware multimedia system; social media interaction; social network activity; virtual reality installations; Cultural differences; Facebook; Media; Motion pictures; Streaming media; Twitter; Social media; multimedia content production and delivery; quality of experience;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Niagara Falls, ON
