Video communication for networked communities: Challenges and opportunities

TY - GEN

T1 - Video communication for networked communities

T2 - 2012 16th International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks, ICIN 2012

AU - Stevens, Tim

AU - Kegel, Ian

AU - Williams, Doug

AU - Torres, Pedro

AU - Cesar, Pablo

AU - Stenton, Phil

AU - Kaiser, Rene

AU - Ursu, Marian

AU - Falelakis, Manolis

AU - Farber, Nikolaus

PY - 2012/12/1

Y1 - 2012/12/1

N2 - While advances in commercial video conferencing and social networking are driving more people to communicate using video, it is still difficult to achieve a sense of co-presence - that is to make the technology transparent to its users - when mediating ad hoc interactions between groups of people in different locations. This paper presents an ambitious plan to define and demonstrate a platform for group communication that allows participants to create a robust video communication session that is centred on a shared activity and to which participants can join or leave in an arbitrary manner using an arbitrary device specification on an arbitrary network. We describe two representative applications in which co-presence is not currently well supported. We then explain the key technical capabilities which we believe must be developed in order to build our platform, highlighting how they extend the state of the art in the dynamic control of video communication systems and the configuration of key components within the network. We conclude by explaining how our novel platform will be implemented and evaluated over the next 3 years.

AB - While advances in commercial video conferencing and social networking are driving more people to communicate using video, it is still difficult to achieve a sense of co-presence - that is to make the technology transparent to its users - when mediating ad hoc interactions between groups of people in different locations. This paper presents an ambitious plan to define and demonstrate a platform for group communication that allows participants to create a robust video communication session that is centred on a shared activity and to which participants can join or leave in an arbitrary manner using an arbitrary device specification on an arbitrary network. We describe two representative applications in which co-presence is not currently well supported. We then explain the key technical capabilities which we believe must be developed in order to build our platform, highlighting how they extend the state of the art in the dynamic control of video communication systems and the configuration of key components within the network. We conclude by explaining how our novel platform will be implemented and evaluated over the next 3 years.

KW - Communication Orchestration

KW - Group Video Conferencing

KW - Service-Aware Networking

KW - Social Communication

KW - Togetherness

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871914777&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/ICIN.2012.6376018

DO - 10.1109/ICIN.2012.6376018

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:84871914777

SN - 9781467315265

SP - 148

EP - 155

BT - 2012 16th International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks, ICIN 2012

Y2 - 8 October 2012 through 11 October 2012

ER -