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An advanced mobile Web TV platform, called ePlayer, is presented. The ePlayer allows mobile phone users to personalise live sports events viewing experience. The platform features automatic video content annotation, user preference matching to video content and dynamic adaptation to the end user environment (including terminal and network capabilities). The platform, together with critical modules, supporting heterogeneous network infrastructures is described. ePlayer is the result of the EU funded research project My-eDirector 2012 and endeavours to provide a unique technology showcase for the coverage of major athletic events with concurrent events and multitudes of cameras. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An event user task modelling methodology for personalising interactive video streaming is defined. This methodology facilitates the creation of interactive user tasks initiated via prospective user interfaces across heterogeneous video streaming access devices. The novelty of the method is threefold: its independence from specific user terminals; facilitates HCI usability testing and user tasks can be personalised. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]