A Context-Aware Decision Engine for Content Adaptation
IEEE Pervasive Computing
An Extensible and Scalable Content Adaptation Pipeline Architecture to Support Heterogeneous Clients
ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
Modeling service-based multimedia content adaptation in pervasive computing
Proceedings of the 1st conference on Computing frontiers
Web services selection for distributed composition of multimedia content
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
Using smart clients to build scalable services
ATEC '97 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
A component-based approach for adaptive dynamic web documents
Journal of Web Engineering
Adapting multimedia Internet content for universal access
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
E-learning 2.0: you are We-LCoME!
W4A '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
Cooperative multimedia management for participative learning: A case study
The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia - Web Accessibility
At the crossroads of web and interactive multimedia: an approach to merge the two realms
CCNC'09 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
Augment browsing and standard profiling for enhancing web accessibility
Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility
Gossiping for resource discovering: An analysis based on complex network theory
Future Generation Computer Systems
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The large diffusion of e-learning technologies represents a great opportunity for underserved segments of population. This is particularly true for people with disabilities for whom digital barriers should be overstepped with the aim of reengaging them back into society to education. In essence, before a mass of learners can be engaged in a collective educational process, each single member should be put in the position to enjoy accessible and customized educational experiences, regardless of the wide diversity of their personal characteristics and technological equipment. To respond to this demand, we developed LOT (Learning Object Transcoder), a distributed PHP-based service-oriented system designed to deliver flexible and customized educational services for a multitude of learners, each with his/her own diverse preferences and needs. The main novelty of LOT amounts to a broking service able to manage the transcoding activities needed to convert multimedia digital material into the form which better fits a given student profile. Transcoding activities are performed based on the use of Web service technologies. Experimental results gathered from several field trials with LOT (available online at http://137.204.74.83/∼lot/) have confirmed the viability of our approach.