NEM Strategic Research Agenda The joint view of the NEM community ICT Networked Media – Consultation Workshop Brussels, 19 January 2010 Vali Lalioti & Ralf Neudel Supported by the FP7-ICT CSA “FutureNEM” NEM Technology Platform ·

NEM mission Accelerate the pace of innovation Make the convergence between the audiovisual sector and the telecom sector happen Place the European industry at the forefront of the information era NEM is an industry-led initiative with 750+members from more than 30 countries and the mission to:

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NEM in figures NEM topics and companies address a €600Bn market NEM investment plan forecast over : €3.5Bn NEM scope involves 1.5 million job in Europe 1.5 million additional jobs are expected to be created by 2015 within NEM’s scope A European growth booster

NEM Strategic Research Agenda Focus of the SRA The NEM SRA is… … a comprehensive yet concise document describing the constant state of change in the NEM research domain … reflecting the common view of the NEM community focussing on future research and development activities … establishing a roadmap towards the realisation of the NEM Vision Latest revision was published in Sep 2009

Today’s consultation workshop Focus topics Innovative technologies, systems and architectures for the Future Media Internet, including: a)Ubiquitous multimedia networking b)Multimedia search and retrieval c)Immersive experiences in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality environments d)Innovative applications (e.g. entertainment, gaming, etc.) e)Personal environments including extended home and social networks f)Multi-technology integration and convergence of broadcasting, content provision, telecommunications, consumer electronics and Future Internet g)Other innovative research ideas at the crossroads of networking and media

NEM Strategic Research Agenda Structure and ongoing survey within NEM Consolidated list of “30 most important Networked Media research challenges” Survey: “Which specific research topics do require additional public support for collaborative research undertakings?”

Current* survey results 6 out of 30 topics identified as “top priority” 1)User satisfaction and quality of experience 2)Home and extended home networks 3)Network architecture 4)Intelligent delivery 5)Representation of content 6)Tools for content creation and manipulation * Status 18 January – 70 participants from 56 individual institutions underlined: topics which should be considered although they are not explicitly mentioned in the list of today’s focus topics

Current survey results Second group of most important topics 7)Quality of service 8)Security, privacy and trust 9)Social networking and media sharing 10)Power management technologies - energy saving 11)Automated semantic annotation 12)New forms of content 13)Contextual awareness 14)Effective recommendation systems

Current survey results Remaining topics relevant to NEM 15)User-system interaction 16)Value web 17)Personalisation and profiling 18)Identity management and AAA 19)Assisted Living 20)Spectrum economy 21)User number measurement and user behaviour logging 22)Authentic, true-to-original media reproduction 23)Federated services 24)Rights management 25)Virtual reality 26)Location 27)Multimedia Middleware 28)Overcoming human language barriers 29)Federated virtual devices 30)Charging and payment

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