A SMO interaction and management model for iDTV applications

Abstract

This paper deals with interactive multimedia applications design whose main function is growing due to the users' needs that expect increasingly complex scenarios under a high level of interactivity. Digital media technology is becoming an integral part of our daily activities.Using multimedia objects in building rich and interactive content for iDTV (Interactive TV) is a complex task. In order to facilitate the way in which the user can freely interact with those multimedia objects makes the applications have to know how to adapt for the situations in order to improve the interaction. In such a context, we believe that the fact to converge on the principles of the smart multimedia objects is the right solution. Then we suggest, by the means of new approach,* the modelling of adaptable and reusable multimedia content called smart multimedia object (SMO) approach.