Ubeel: Generating Local Narratives for Public Displays from Tagged and Annotated Video Content

In this paper, we present our vision and research directions for personalized and context-aware sharing of videos. Our aim is to explore new methods for providing situated video content. Utilizing multi-touch displays and encouraging users to collaboratively create content in shopping malls and public spaces. We seek to understand what motivates people to contribute to the local narratives or in viral marketing purposes. One objective is to explore content personalization utilizing tags and context-aware information. We present relevant preliminary results from participatory design workshops, organized to involve the customers to elaborate ideas for new digital services in shopping malls. Preliminary implementation for a mobile location aware social video sharing service Ubeel is presented. We will discuss our current vision of elements which are important and should be considered in such systems in the future.