A hybrid architectural framework for digital home multimedia multi-modal collaboration services

Home Server plays an important role to manage all home network devices and multimedia content services in the digital home. Multimedia collaboration over home networking devices is inhibited by several factors. The decision based on a single input agent to serve all the needs of the home users is to be enhanced to facilitate multi-modal inputs with multiple integrated User Agents working together to facilitate the new generation of dynamic home networking devices. Display has to be adaptive and context sensitive to adapt to the dynamic needs of the user. In this paper, we present a hybrid architectural framework as our recent efforts for extending the functionalities of Home Server in order to support multi-modal context-sensitive multimedia collaboration services.