Personalized Linear Radio
Personalized Radio and the Hybrid Content Radio Framework
Personalized Linear Radio is based on the Hybrid-Content Radio (HCR) framework, proposed at the International Broadcasting Convention in September 2015. Unlike most Internet streaming services (such as Spotify or Deezer), this system allows adding audio content to an existing linear audio structure: the program schedule of the broadcaster. Especially, HCR enriches the linear tuner’s schedule with custom and contextual audio content that replaces small parts of linear audio. The context can be the emotional state, the geographic location, the group, the weather, and all the factors that contribute to the description of the status of the listener.
The inclusion of suggested audio content can be:
- automatic, based on context, previous listening history, provile and preferences
- manual, based on the listener’s direct interaction (skip, channel change)
The end result of this enrichment is to improve the listeners’ user experience, offering personalized content, such as news, entertainment, music, and even relevant advertisements. The proposed technique, if used on devices supporting broadcast reception (such as DAB+) and connected to the Internet, provides content personalization at a minimum bandwidth, since the traditional audio channel is preferred, unlike the existing music playlists on the Internet.
The proposed framework can be applied to both audio and video content. However, audio, compared to images and videos, fits well into scenarios where the listener follows other activities. It is common to see people listening to the radio as they walk, go biking, or drive a car.
Rai is experimenting with the personalized linear radio, a still evolving service based on the hybrid content radio framework presented in September 2015 to IBC. The research has been carried out in part in a PhD in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Turin. The prototype allows you to use information about user preferences and context to select enrichment content, through context-based recommendation algorithms.
Hybrid content radio aims to improve the listening experience, suggesting personalized content, and optimizing bandwidth, preferring, if available, the broadcast channel for listening to content.
See to the references for detailed information.
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Authors: Paolo Casagranda
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Francesco Russo, Raffaele Teraoni Prioletti
References
- P. Casagranda, A. Erk, S. O’Halpin, D. Born, W. Huijten. A framework for a context-based hybrid content radio. The Best of the IET and IBC Journal, IET, 2015, http://digital-library.theiet.org/content/conferences/10.1049/ibc.2015.0035
- P. Casagranda, M. L. Sapino, K. S. Candan. Context-Aware Proactive Personalization of Linear Audio Content. EDBT: 20th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, 2017, https://openproceedings.org/2017/conf/edbt/paper-433.pdf
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- P. Casagranda, F. Russo, R. Teraoni Prioletti. La radio lineare personalizzata. Rai Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni 2016, http://www.crit.rai.it/eletel/2016-1/161-4.pdf
- S. Metta, P. Casagranda, A. Messina, M. Montagnuolo, F. Russo. Leveraging MPEG-21 user description for interoperable recommender systems. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM, April 2016, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301197618_Leveraging_MPEG-21_User_Description_for_Interoperable_Recommender_Systems
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