Multimodal context based-adaptive architecture for multimedia documents

Multimedia documents can be accessed at anytime and anywhere on a wide variety of devices, such as laptops, tablets and smartphones. The heterogeneity of devices and user preferences has raised a serious issue for multimedia contents adaptation. Our research focuses on multimedia documents adaptation with a strong focus on interaction with users and exploration of multimodality. We propose a semantic multimodal architecture for adapting multimedia documents based on a distributed implementation of W3C´s Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces applied to ubiquitous computing. The proposed architecture has the great advantage to offer a flexible way to users to satisfy their preferences and to make content more accessible and interactive.