PhD TV

Strengthen the TV Experience beyond the TV

The TV experience is no longer restricted to the TV. Other media devices, such as the PC and mobile phones, have become platforms for consuming TV content, which are more and more extended with new features for communication and social networking. A main challenge is still how to provide users the “right” TV experience. It has to be thought about how it is possible to strengthen the TV experien...

1 TV 03 : Personalization in Future TV

We describe an Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) that uses interactive panning and zooming, gestures, and spoken dialog to enable viewers to access relevant information in large hyperlinked databases. The guide is imbued with a "personality" that gives the impression to the viewer of interacting with an intelligent, opinionated agent.

PhD Candidate

PhD Thesis

PhD Dissertation

Self-Adaptive Software systems (SAS) adapt at run-time in response to changes in user’s needs, operating contexts, and resource availability, by requiring minimal to no involvement of system administrators. The ever-greater reliance on software with qualities such as flexibility and easy integrability, and the associated increase of design and maintenance effort, is raising the interest towards...