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Consumer electronics (CE) are changing from stand-alone single-function devices to products with increasing connectivity, convergence of functionality, and a focus on customer experience. We discuss the features that characterize the new generation of CE and illustrate this new paradigm through an examination of how web services can be integrated with CE products to deliver an improved user experience. In particular, we focus on one aspect of the CE segment, digital photography. We introduce AutoPhotobook, an automatic photobook creation service and provide a detailed look at how it addresses the complexity of photobook authoring through a portfolio of automatic photo analysis and composition technologies. We then show how this collection of technologies is integrated into a larger ecosystem with other web services and web-connected CE devices to deliver an enhanced user experience.
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The authors would like to thank Phil Cheatle, David Slatter, Chris Willis, Andrew Carter, and Roland Penny for technology contributions and many helpful discussions on the Autophotobook application. We would also like to thank HP’s Global Delivery China Center team members, lead by Hua Zhang, for their dedicated efforts in building the Autophotobook.com site described in this paper: Tonghai Duan, Fei Ma, Zhidong Mao, Zeshuo Yin, and Yue Yuan.
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Tretter, D. et al. (2010). Multimedia Experience on Web-Connected CE Devices. In: Shao, L., Shan, C., Luo, J., Etoh, M. (eds) Multimedia Interaction and Intelligent User Interfaces. Advances in Pattern Recognition. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-507-1_11
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