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Human-Centered Computing: Application to Multimedia

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HCC; HCM; Human-centered multimedia

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Human-centered computing (HCC) is an emerging, interdisciplinary academic field broadly concerned with computing and computational artifacts as they relate to the human condition.

HCC consists of a set of methodologies for designing, implementing, and deploying computing in any field that uses computing in any form. The definition of HCC is purposely broad, and this reflects the view that computing plays an active and crucial role in a huge number of human activities.

One important area of HCC is concerned with the design, implementation, and deployment of computing systems or devices in everyday environments. In such cases, it is desirable for HCC approaches to:

  • Integrate input from different types of sensors and communicate through a combination of media as output.

  • Act according to relevant social and cultural contexts.

  • Be useful to diverse individuals.

In general, HCC methodologies guide the design of effective computer systems...

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Nicu Sebe

  2. Telefonica R&D, Madrid, Spain

    Alejandro Jaimes

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, New Jersey Inst. of Technology, University Heights, 7102, Newark, NJ, USA

    Vincent Oria

  2. Digital Content and Media Sciences ReseaMultimedia Information Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Shin'ichi Satoh

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Sebe, N., Jaimes, A. (2016). Human-Centered Computing: Application to Multimedia. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_1035-2

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