<title>Resource-driven content adaptation</title>

Abstract

Recent trends have created new challenges in the presentation of multimedia information. First, large, high-resolution video displays are increasingly popular. Meanwhile, many mobile devices, such as PDAs and mobile telephones, can display images and videos on small screens. One obvious issue is that content designed for a large display is inappropriate for a small display. Moreover, wireless bandwidth and battery lifetime are precious resources for mobile devices. In order to provide useful content across systems with different resources, we propose "resource-driven content adaptation" by augmenting the content with metadata that can be used to display or render the content based on the available resources. We are investigating several problems related to resource-driven content adaptation. These include: adaptation of the presented content based on available resources-display resolution, bandwidth, processor speed, quality of services, and energy. Content adaptation may add or remove information based on available resources. Adaptive content can utilize resources more effectively but also present challenges in resource management, content creation, transmission, and user perception.

Mobile solutions for engineering asset and maintenance management

“…Moreover, it also appears to become more and more commonly acknowledged that a uniform user interface design is not practical in all situations where different screen sizes are involved, as in the cases of combined use of desktop‐sized and hand‐held monitors, touch screens or screens on mobile phones. Instead of attempting to design a globally relevant user interface, current research has begun to focus on designing contextualized solutions, wherein content is adjusted to better fit to the resource that requests it (Lu et al , 2006).…”