Animation within mobile multimedia on-line services

Suitable concepts have to be identified or developed that guarantee the effective usability of mobile multimedia information and services. A platform dedicated to the mobile infrastructure that bundles such concepts is currently being developed within the European ACTS project Mobile Media and ENTertainment Services (MOMENTS). The platform will offer multimedia products - information and services - to end users within service trials in a GSM-/DCS-1800-based mobile infrastructure. Further advanced developments, like wide band user channels, will be shown in a Technological Demonstrator. This paper concentrates on the handling of animation within wireless multimedia services. Technical requriements on the usage of animation that result from the mobile infrastructure and multimedia on-line services are outlined. The potential of animation within mobile services is illustrated via selected application scenarios. Standardization activities for the modeling and encoding of animation are desc ribed. A feasible architecture derived for the handling of animation within wireless multimedia on-line services is outlined.