Nowadays Internet contents can be reached from a vast set of different devices. We can cite mobile devices (mobile phones, PDAs, smartphones) and more recently TV sets through browser-embedding Set-Top Boxes (STB). The diverse characteristics that define these devices (input, output, processing power, available bandwidth, . . . ) force content providers to keep as many versions as the number of...

Assembly task is an activity of collecting parts / components and bringing them together through assembly operations to perform one or more of several primary functions. In practice, part drawing is still performing as a main means for assembly guidance nowadays. As an emerging and powerful technology, Augmented Reality (AR) integrates images of virtual objects into a real world. Due to its sel...

Earlier this year we were asked to offer an AIED perspective to the development of interactive educational television (ie-TV). This theme paper discusses our response to the question: what can the field of AIED offer to developers of education for the wired and wireless future with particular respect to TV? We note the changes that have taken place over the past 50 years in the nature and proli...

In Taiwan, there are different types of TV programs, and each program usually has its broadcast length and frequency. We accumulate the broadcasted TV programs’ word-ofmouth on Facebook and apply the Backpropagation Network to predict the latest program audience rating. TV audience rating is an important indicator regarding the popularity of programs and it is also a factor to influence the rev...

in order to be attracted, each work of must encounter viewer in its environment. at first it is virtual and is the result of sensitive subjectivity of the artist, and then it will be changed to objectivity and forms a piece of artwork. the artist of filmmaker is changing the virtual environment of the film; the virtual situation which is made in the mind of the scriptwriter and himself; and use...