Virtual Campfire
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Research field | Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) |
Parent project | UMIC |
Funding | DFG |
Status | completed |
Virtual Campfire is a scenario to demonstrate advanced services for mobile multimedia social software.
Introduction
The Web 2.0 communities become mobile and multimedia based, which raises new challenges to community information systems. Meanwhile, Social Software makes users be content prosumers (consumer and producer in parallel) anywhere at any time. Consequently, Web 2.0 and social software result in a great amount of multimedia artifacts and a large number of diverse communities. Within the research cluster UMIC of the German Excellence Initiative, we have developed this scenario. Virtual Campfire is an advanced framework to create, search, and share multimedia artifacts with context awareness cross communities. Hosted on the basic component the Community Engine, Virtual Campfire provides communities a set of Context-Aware Services and Multimedia Processor Components (cf. Figure 1) to connect to heterogeneous data sources. Through standard protocols a large variety of (mobile) interfaces facilitate a rapid design and prototyping of context-aware multimedia community information systems. The successful realization of a couple of (mobile) applications listed as follows has proved the concept and demonstrated Virtual Campfire in practices.
- YouTell is a multimedia based non-linear digital
storytelling system with the underlying Movement Oriented Design (MOD) paradigm
(developed at
Victoria University, Melbourne,
Australia). It contextualizes multimedia artifacts with regard
to multimedia semantics and problems addressed by users. Please have a try by clicking here.
- NMV is an MPEG-7 multimedia tagging system. It support free text tagging, MPEG-7 standard based semantic tagging and community based tagging (Commsonomy) to enhance semantic multimedia search and retrieval.
- Mobile Campfire is an iPhone application for multimedia creation tagging and story sharing. Spatiotemporal context information is captured at real-time photo creation process. Stories composed of images and videos in the SMIL format are able to be shared by iPhone users. Mobile Campfire can be downloaded and installed from AppStore (Mobile Campfire at iTunes AppStore).
- SeViAnno is a semantic-enhanced video annotation service to enable collaborative tagging of video frames. Expressiveness of video semantics is enhanced through tagging on objects, agents, concepts, events, time, and places based on MPEG-7. The user interface is simple and comprehensive using Web 2.0 and mashups. Please have a try by clicking here.
- ACIS is a GIS enabled multimedia
information system hosting diverse user communities. Cultural heritage
management in Afghanistan has its special case, because the national
scientific structures and information systems were ever destroyed.
ACIS facilitates the intergenerational cooperation among communities
on an international level. Please have a try by clicking here.
Trailer
- Virtual Campfire - A Social Software to Heat up Your Old Bones!

Posters
Links
- ACIS - Afghan Community Information System for Cultural Heritage Management
- Community of Bamiyan Development
Research staff
- Dr. Yiwei Cao
- Dipl.-Inform. Anna Hannemann
- PD Dr. Ralf Klamma, AOR
- Dr. Dejan Kovachev
- Dr. Zinayida Petrushyna (Kensche), M.Sc.
- Dr. Dominik Renzel, Dipl.-Inform.
Theses
- Measuring coherence accross media in learning environments (Open)
- Framework for Distributed UI of Rich Mobile/Web Applications (2013)
- Indoor/Outdoor Context-aware Multimedia Queries in the Cloud (2011)
- XMPP Based Monitoring and Analysis of Mobile Communities (2009)
Publications
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Florian Stegmaier, Harald Kosch, Ralf Klamma, Mathias Lux, Ernesto Damiani
Published in Florian Stegmaier, Harald Kosch, Ralf Klamma, Mathias Lux, Ernesto Damiani: Multimedia on the web - editorial, Multimedia Tools Appl. 70(2): 821-826 (2014) (2012 Impact Factor: 1.014). DOI:10.1007/s11042-013-1729-9
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Mobile Real-Time Collaboration for Semantic Multimedia: A Case Study with Mobile Augmented Reality Systems
Published in Mobile Networks and Applications (Online first), Springer US, doi:10.1007/s11036-013-0453-z
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Uncertainty Handling in Mobile Community Information Systems
Published in PhD Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, 2012
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Xiangfeng Luo, Yiwei Cao, Bo Yang, Jianxun Liu, Feiyue Ye
Published in Revised Selected Papers, Shanghai, China, December 7-11, 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Vol. 6537, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20539-2
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The Hero's Journey - Template-Based Storytelling for Ubiquitous Multimedia Management
Published in Special Issue on Journal of Multimedia (JMM): Advances in Interactive Media Technologies, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2011, pp. 156-169, Academy Publisher.
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Learn-as-you-go: New Ways of Cloud-based Micro-learning for the Mobile Web
Published in Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2011, Proceedings of 10th International Conference, Hong Kong, December 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7048, pp. 51-61, Springer Verlag
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Georgios Toubekis, Irmengard Mayer, Marina Döring-Williams, Kosaku Maeda, Kazuya Yamauchi, Yoko Taniguchi, Susumu Morimoto, Michael Petzet, Matthias Jarke, Michael Jansen
Published in CIPA Heritage Documentation Best Practices and Applications, Series I, 2007 2009 2011, Eds. Stylianidis E., Patias, P. and Santana,M., International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Vol. XXXVIII,Part 5/C19
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Yiwei Cao, Dominik Renzel, Matthias Jarke, Ralf Klamma, Michael Lottko, Georgios Toubekis, Michael Jansen
Published in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2010)
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Dominik Renzel, Yiwei Cao, Michael Lottko, Ralf Klamma
Published in Anna Carreras, Jaime Delgado, Xavier Maroñas, Víctor Rodríguez (Eds.): Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community on Interoperable Social Multimedia Applications (WISMA-2010), CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol-583 Barcelona, Spain, May 19-20, 2010, 7-14.
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Haroula Papadaki, Eleni Gadolou, Emmanuel Stefanakis, Georgios Kritikos, Yiwei Cao, Anna Hannemann, Dejan Kovachev, Ralf Klamma
Published in Seventh European GIS Education Seminar (EUGISES 2010), September 9 - 12, 2010, Serres Greece.
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Eleni Gadolou, Haroula Papadaki, Emmanuel Stefanakis, Georgios Kritikos, Yiwei Cao, Anna Hannemann, Ralf Klamma, Dejan Kovachev
Published in (short paper), Marco Painho, Maribel Yasmina Santos and Hardy Pundt (eds.): Proceedings of 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science: Geospatial Thinking, Guimaraes, Portugal, May 10-14, 2010
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Mobile multimedia management for Virtual Campfire - the German excellence research cluster UMIC
Published in International Journal on Computer Systems, Science and Engineering (IJCSSE), 25(3): 251-265, May 2010.
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Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma, Martin Hristov
Published in Klamma, R. et al. (eds.): 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing (U-Media), July 5-7, 2010, Jinhua, China, pp.118-123, IEEE Press.
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Mobile Multimedia Management for Community-aware Storytelling
Published in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'10), May 23-26, 2010, Kansas City, MO, USA. pp. 59-64
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Multimedia Processing on Multimedia Semantics and Multimedia Context
Published in Ralf Klamma, Harald Kosch, Matthias Lux and Florian Stegmaier (Eds.): Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SeMuDaTe'09), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 539, Graz, Austria, December, 2009
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Virtual Campfire - Collaborative Multimedia Semantization with Mobile Social Software
Published in Ralf Klamma, Harald Kosch, Matthias Lux and Florian Stegmaier (Eds.): Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SeMuDaTe'09), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 539, Graz, Austria, December, 2009
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Context-aware Mobile Multimedia Services in the Cloud
Published in Ralf Klamma, Harald Kosch, Matthias Lux and Florian Stegmaier (Eds.): Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SeMuDaTe'09), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 539, Graz, Austria, December, 2009
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Virtual Campfire - Cultural Heritage Management and Presentation on Mobile Devices based on Interoperable Cross-Plattform MPEG-7 Multimedia Web Services
Published in Conference Paper at the 22nd CIPA Symposium - Digital Documentation, Interpretation & Presentation of Cultural Heritage, 11-15 Octoer 2009, Kyoto, Japan
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A Community Success Model for Gaming Communities
Published in Journal of Multimedia, Vol 4, No 2 (2009), 87-93, Apr 2009, ACADEMY PUBLISHER, doi:10.4304/jmm.4.2.87-93
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Storytelling on the Web 2.0 as a New Means of Creating Arts
Published in Borko Furht (Eds.): Handbook of Multimedia for Digital Entertainment and Arts, Springer, pp. 623-650, 2009
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Ralf Klamma, N. Sharda, Balthasar Fernández-Manjón, Harald Kosch, Marc Spaniol