Author(s):

Lawrence A. Rowe

Affiliation:

University of California, Berkeley

Duration:

Abstract

This presentation was given at the Watson Workshop on Multimedia held at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center June 20, 2003 in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 2003 Program Committee Meeting.

The first commercially available video phone service was offered in the late 1930's, videoconferencing systems were developed and deployed in the 1960's and 70's, Internet streaming media first began in the early 1990's. Over the past decade considerable research has shown how streaming audio and video can be used for a variety of applications. While some audio applications have achieved widespread use, for example, music swapping and radio webcasts, the use of video in everyday applications is not widely used.

This talk explores this phenomena and suggest reasons why video is not ubiquitous like other media.

Presentation

June 19, 2003