Context management and analysis for social TV platforms

With the emergence of Web 2.0, large amounts of multimedia enriched data have deluged the cyberspace rendering the process for the selection and recommendation of relevant content increasingly difficult for the end-user. This overabundance of audio-visual material needs to be handled if one wishes to provide quality services related to content delivery, syndication, recommendations etc. In this work, we present an innovative context-aware platform that combines social media, content syndication and targets second screen usage to enhance media content provisioning, renovate the interaction with end-users and enrich their experience. The platform captures users´ preferences, interests and social behaviour and effectively delivers and recommends to them media assets compositions in a contextual-aware fashion, automatically or ad-hoc, synchronously or asynchronously, providing a rich user experience.