Research Topics in New Media and New Digital Economy

• Future Internet architectures
• Internet architecture and protocol designs
• Internet routing architectures and protocols
• Internet routing security
• Internet content distribution
• Satellite Internet
• Energy Internet
• Industrial Internet
• The tactile Internet
• Quantum computing and communications
• Quantum Internet
• Internet fragmentation

• The green data center
• Data center power management
  
• Cloud computing: Impact on data center technology and operations
• Virtualization and cloud computing in the data center
• Software-defined data center
  
• Software-defined power
  
• Scalable storage infrastructure for database systems
• Social media, cloud computing and big data
• E-government interoperability in cloud computing, open government, and smart city initiatives  
• Hyperconvergence and Hyperconverged platforms

• Cloud/Fog radio access networks
• Internet of vehicles
  
• Vehicular cloud
  
• Machine-to-Machine (M2M) cloud
• Urban computing
• Distributed computing
• Parallel and distributed systems
• Distributed data intensive systems
• Distributed cloud storage system
• Cloud AI
• Cloud computing infrastructures
• Cloud culture
• Ubi/Cloud computing architecture
• Micro datacenter (cloudlets/edges)
  
• Mobile cloud computing
• Infrastructure/software/application/business cloud
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in cloud computing
• Virtualization of hardware/software resources
• Design tool for cloud computing
• Maintenance and management of cloud computing
• Cloud-computing and ubiquitous sensing
• Cloud applications in vertical industries
• Cloud computing in the healthcare industry
• Smart and connected healthcare
• Scientific computing in the cloud
• Business computing in the cloud
• Social computing in the cloud
  
• High availability in cloud computing environments
• High performance computing (HPC) cloud  
• Cloud-native architecture, technologies, and applications

-- Fog/Edge Computing

4. The Internet of Things (IoT)

• Green Computing and Communication Technologies 
• Energy- and power-constrained devices and gateways
• Green infrastructure sustainable design and technologies
• Low-power, distributed data processing on sensors
• Ultra-low power systems architectures
• Optimization and/or analysis in green computing and communications (including core network optimization)
• Energy-efficient M2M wired and wireless communications and networking
• Green cloud computing
• Green big data architecture
• Energy efficiency in networking, wireless networks and vehicular networks
• Energy efficient networking, communication and protocols
• Measurement and modeling of energy consumption
• Energy efficiency in data centers and large-scale data processing
• Standardization and benchmark

6. Cyber Security, Digital Forensics, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwarfare, and Electronic Warfare

• Cyber security strategy
• Quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution (QKD)
• Applied cryptography
• Anomaly detection systems
• Malware analysis and detection
• Digital forensics and crimes
• Biometrics and forensics
• Biometric authentication
• Data leakage, data protection and database forensics
• Forensics of virtual and cloud environments
• Network forensics and traffic analysis hardware vulnerabilities and device forensics
• File system and memory analysis multimedia forensics
• Anti-forensics and anti-anti-forensics techniques
• Malware forensics and anti-malware techniques
• Pattern recognition (face/iris recognition) 
• Applications of machine learning for security,
• Security (biometrics) 
• Visual analytics for cyber security
• Automated vulnerability detection
  
• Cyberbullying detection
• Security risk assessment and management
  
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Cloud infrastructure security
• Emerging threats to cloud-based services
• Securing distributed data storage in the cloud
• Cybersecurity in distributed systems
• Internet privacy
• Balancing identity and privacy
• Privacy and ethics
• Privacy and security in cloud computing and big data
  
• Privacy-preserving techniques for cloud computing (homomorphic encryption)
• Security assurance/interoperability for critical infrastructure
• Network and system security
• Secure information exchange gateway and watchdog switches
• Embedded systems security
  
• Wide area monitoring, protection & control
• Access control management and authentication services
• Surveillance systems
• Smart grid security
• Cyber warfare trends and approaches
• Cyber defense and network: evolving, adapting, defending
  
• Cyber war and international law
• Resilient infrastructure
  
• Wireless security
• Wireless network intrinsic secrecy  
• Next-generation security technologies
• Bio-inspired technologies for enhancing cybersecurity
• Biometrics standards and standardization
• Biometrics applications
• Emerging theories and algorithms in biometrics
• Multimedia and document security
• Software evolution
  
• Software verification and assurance
• Software security
• Computer language-based security and privacy
• Secure routing
  
• Testbeds for security applications
• Operating systems security
• Intrusion detection/prevention
• Cyberbullying detection
• Multilingual cyberbullying detection system
• Future cyber security
• Web and mobile security
• On-demand economy
• Cyber security and Internet economy
• Cyber security, privacy and blockchains

• Smarter sensors
• Power-efficient sensors
• Soft and virtual sensors
• Sensor fusion
• Biosensors 
• Electric current, magnetic or radio sensors
• Humidity sensors
• Fluid velocity or flow sensors
• Pressure sensors
• Thermal or temperature sensors
• Optical sensors
• Position sensors
• Environmental sensors
• Chemical sensors 
• Proximity sensors
• Accelerometers IR sensor (Infrared sensors) 
• Light sensors
• Ultrasonic sensors
• Smoke, Gas and Alcohol sensors
• Touch sensors
• Color sensors 
• Position sensors
• Magnetic sensors (Hall Effect sensors)
• Microphone (Sound sensors)
• Tilt sensors
• Flow and Level sensors
• PIR Sensors 
• Strain and Weight sensors

• Transmedia theory and design

• Transmedia, art and content

• Transmedia storytelling
• Transmedia storytelling in museums
• Transmedia journalism

• Transmedia and future computing/IT convergence/creative industry 

• AI and Transmedia storytelling

• Web technologies for authoring and reading, such as web comics and light novel platforms

• Emerging technologies for transmedia contents and experience of transmedia
• Transmedia ecosystems, analysis of multi-platform transmedia
• Practices of transmedia creation
• New transmedia systems
• Interaction design of transmedia

• Wearable computing
• Mobile devices and virtual reality
• Ubiquitous mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR)
  
• Wearable and mobile mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR)
  
• Distributed and collaborative mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR)
  
• Industrial/medical mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR) applications
  
• Mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR) for entertainment and training
• Interactive, virtual and augmented environments
• Avatars and virtual community
• Metaverse
• Opportunistic user interfaces
• Brain–computer interface 
• Gesture recognition 
• Embedded radar-based hand gesture recognition applications
• Omnidirectional treadmill 
• Speech recognition
• Tele-immersion
• Fovea-contingent display
• Volumetric display
  
• Vari-focal plane head-mounted display
• Multi-focal plane head-mounted display
• Head-mounted projection display
• Eye-tracked head-mounted display
• 3D printing technology
• New 3D printing tools and techniques
• Robotics and telepresence
  

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cultural Heritage 
• Artificial intelligence in the context of cultural heritage and museums
• Complex challenges and new opportunities
• Metaverse for Cultural Heritages
• ChatGPT for Cultural Heritages
• Mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR) for cultural heritage
  
• Computer animation for cultural heritage applications and virtual heritage
• Virtual realty (VR) applications in conservation research and practice
• Intelligent description of cultural heritage content (in multiple languages)
• Novel Internet-based cultural heritage applications
• Encyclopedias in cultural heritage
• Digital libraries and archives
• National digital libraries and aggregators as cross-domain systems
  
• E-libraries and e-learning in cultural heritage
• Cultural heritage and edutainment
• Cultural heritage and cuisine
  
• Knowledge systems for heritage management
• Virtual heritage, virtual tourism, and virtual museum applications (e-museums and e-exhibitions)
• Digital image processing and pattern recognition
  
• 3D data capture and processing in cultural heritage
• Digital reconstructions and 3D modeling
• Digital media and commodification of cultural heritage
• Digital heritage tools and systems
  
• The economics of cultural informatics and tourism

• Digital and Computational Photography
• Ocean photography - ocean climate imagery
• Digital humanities
• Film, television, and digital media
• Computer vision
• Camera culture
• Immersive cinema
• 3D reconstruction and motion estimation
• Computational camera and photography
• Information technologies, social networking, and digital media
• International, inter-cultural, and intra-cultural communication
• Cyberarts and visualization
• Gigapixel display
• 3D displays
• Information visualization and visual analytics
• Ubiquitous/pervasive media and art
• Media arts and creative technologies
• Creative writing
• Interactive and mobile media & art
• Opera of the future
• Museology
• Museum art and exhibitions
• Future of storytelling
• Digital storytelling
• Applications of serious gaming technologies
• Affective computing
• Media forensics
• Applied arts
• Apparel design, architecture, furniture design, industrial design, interior architecture and landscape architecture
• Culture, fashion design and digital media
• Fashion photography
• Craft and decorative art
• Music theory and composition
  
• Ethnomusicology
• Intermedia music technology
• Networked music
• Computer music and multimedia
• Electronic music composition
• Computer audition
• Sound analysis, processing, synthesis and control
• Melodic pattern recognition
• Auditory display
• Symbolic manipulation of formal music representations
• Music perception and cognition
• Audio-music-speech signal analysis and processing
• Music therapy
• Emerging sound recording technologies
• Internet music delivery
• Music entrepreneurship

• Virtual co-presence
• Virtual Reality and climate change communication
• Citizen Heritage
• Crowdsourcing
• Death and technology
• Digital domesticity
• Conceptualising and measuring digital emotion regulation
• Biometric Mirror
• Human-computer interaction
• Interactive multimedia
• Role-playing games
• Mixed/augmented reality (MR/AR) for entertainment
• Human-centered computing and cognitive science
  
• Education, virtual classroom and virtual collaborative learning
• Social impact, social networking, sound and music
• Social and interactive computing and media
• Social Computing and computational journalism
• Knowledge representation
• Computer-supported collaborative learning
• Digital game-based learning
• Web-based learning environment
• Mobile learning
  
• Mobile entertainment
• Mobile social networks