Contemporary ubiquitous media services: Content recommendation and adaptation

Recent rapid advancement in both pervasive mobile computing and cloud service has been driving numerous new applications in the ubiquitous media consumption. To provide mobile user with richer experiences, it is desired for the service providers to offer highly relevant recommendations of media content to the users by exploring user-user, user-media and user-context relationships. Furthermore, contemporary media services also need to address potential presentation mismatch between high quality high resolution media data in the cloud data centers and low resolution terminal capability of the ubiquitous mobile users. This paper attempts to examine several relevant recent developments in ubiquitous media services, especially in the area of content recommendation and user centric content adaptation. Based on current technology trends, we envisage the bright future of ubiquitous media services as pervasive mobile computing and cloud service advance to next level of technology penetration.