The ontology for a multi-sensory media service

Under the development of ubiquitous technologies, people need a novel media system. That means the multi-sensory media service which satisfies the five senses and makes people feel realistic. It is necessary to build knowledge about sensory effects and devices in order to provide the service. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based knowledge modeling. The proposed ontology model consists of effect ontology and device ontology. The effect ontology represents semantic information about multimedia contents and sensory effects synchronized with the contents. The device ontology represents semantic information about devices generating sensory effects. By using the model, we can infer sensory effects and their attributes from the predefined semantic information of multimedia contents. We proved the usefulness of our ontology model by showing results according to scenario-based experiments.