On the last day of the ACM Multimedia conference, there were many workshops. In fact, there were many that I wanted to at least sample to see what is going on in that area — like in video surveillance, multimedia information retrieval, and human centered multimedia. I ended up attending part of the Human Centered multimedia and then I had to leave to get back to Irvine. In fact I gave the key note in Human Centered Multimedia workshop. My presentation is available here.
The message that I wanted to convey was that computing has always been human centric but due to changed nature of data, computing, and communication now we have a chance to rethink how to utilize event based representations, experiences, and mobile phones as drives to bring more synergy between humans and machines to build environments that will be effortless foe humans to use. I enjoyed the talk because it appeared that audience was very receptive to the ideas. I plan to refine and modify the message for my key note talk in Hangzhou, China.