2013 Proceeding- Program Chairs:
- Pablo Cesar,
- Matthew Cooper,
- David A. Shamma,
- Doug Williams
It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd International Workshop on Socially-Aware Multimedia (SAM13), which is held in conjunction with the International ACM Multimedia Conference 2013.
The workshop provides, for second consecutive year, an opportunity to explore sociallyaware multimedia, in which the social dimension of mediated interactions between people is considered to be as important as the characteristics of the media content. Even though this social dimension is implicitly addressed in some current solutions, further research is needed to better understand what makes multimedia socially-aware. In other words, we assert social interactivity is a principle component of multimedia research. The goal of the workshop is to pave the way for future innovation by acting as a community-building interdisciplinary event, where research challenges can be identified and classified. By doing so, the event will help enable innovative solutions for the challenges ahead.
In total, the workshop received sixteen submissions from all over the world (Asia, Europe, and North and South America), from which the program committee selected eight. The workshop has been organized primarily as a forum for discussion and knowledge exchange, with special emphasis on innovative directions and on brave ideas. In addition, the program of the workshop includes two invited papers by Dr. Munmun De Choudhury (at Microsoft Research) and Dr. Lyndon Kennedy (at Yahoo! Research), and two keynote speeches by Dr. Dick C.A. Bulterman (at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and VU University and Vice Chair of ACM SIGWEB) and by Dr. Eric Gilbert (at the Georgia Tech GVU).
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Learning how people use multimedia socially
In the last decade, we've seen social media explode on the internet. Of course, some of the most popular sites hinge on multimedia. Think Flickr, Instagram, r/pics, Soundcloud. While researchers have shed considerable light on how text and networks work ...
Are there cultural differences in event driven information propagation over social media?
In recent years, online social networks become popular across the world. The success of online social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, have led to the emergence of similar social networks in many countries with different cultural backgrounds. For ...
Exploiting socially-generated side information in dimensionality reduction
In this paper, we show how side information extracted from socially-curated data can be used within a dimensionality reduction method and to what extent this side information is beneficial to several tasks such as image classification, data ...
Socially-aware video recommendation using users' profiles and crowdsourced annotations
- Marco Bertini,
- Alberto Del Bimbo,
- Andrea Ferracani,
- Francesco Gelli,
- Daniele Maddaluno,
- Daniele Pezzatini
The recent explosive growth in the use of social networks has raised the question of how to meet the emerging demand for services that address the interests of the users. In this paper we show how considering homophily in social networks can improve ...
Socially motivated multimedia topic timeline summarization
As the amount of social media shared on the Internet grows increasingly, it becomes possible to explore a topic with a novel, people based viewpoint. Contrasting with traditional man-made topic summarization which provide the personal view of its author,...
Emerging trends in social multimedia
The past two decades of research in the multimedia community might be broadly described as an investigation into methods for automatically organizing collections of media or otherwise making them searchable and accessible. The un- derlying assumption is ...
Understanding social media engagement: have expectations exceed results?
One of the original applications of the analysis of social media use was to find a 'back door' through which we (as a community) could obtain insights in the motivations and interactions of users and producers of content. By studying when, where and how ...
Empathic interactions in future media scenarios
In this paper we discuss methods for social interaction between content producers and media consumers in a fully automatic "empathic" way. The general idea is that emotions and intentions from consumers are derived and an automatic personalization ...
CoStream@Home: connected live event experiences
Live events can be mainly experienced in two different ways: spectators are either present in-situ, i.e. in the stadium, or they witness the event remotely, e.g. at home or in a pub. Although both experiences concern the same event, they are ...
A QoE testbed for socially-aware video-mediated group communication
Video-Mediated group communication is filtering into everyday use, as commercial products enable people to connect with friends and relatives. Current solutions provide basic support, so that communication can happen, but do they enable conversations? ...
Connected media and presence
Effective design of shared mediated spaces, information and connectedness requires theory and practice from a range of disciplines such as found in European projects like Together Anywhere, Together Anytime (TA2) and the EIT ICT Labs Mediating Presence ...
Role of social media in tackling challenges in mental health
Mental illness is a serious and widespread health challenge in our society today. Tens of millions of people each year suffer from depression and only a fraction receives adequate treatment. This position paper highlights some recent attempts examining ...
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