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Sensors 2012, 12, 8710-8731; doi:10.3390/s120708710 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Subtitle Synchronization across Multiple Screens and Devices Aitor Rodriguez-Alsina *, Guillermo Talavera, Pilar Orero and Jordi Carrabina Center of Ambient Intelligence and Accessibility of Catalonia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain; E-Mails: Guillermo.Talavera@uab.cat (G.T.); Pilar.Orero@uab.cat (P.O.); Jordi.Carrabina@uab.cat (J.C.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: Aitor.Rodriguez@uab.cat; Tel.: +34-935-813-534; Fax: +34-935-813-033. Received: 4 June 2012; in revised form: 15 June 2012 / Accepted: 15 June 2012 / Published: 26 June 2012 Abstract: Ambient Intelligence is a new paradigm in which environments are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. This is having an increasing importance in multimedia applications, which frequently rely on sensors to provide useful information to the user. In this context, multimedia applications must adapt and personalize both content and interfaces in order to reach acceptable levels of context-specific quality of service for the user, and enable the content to be available anywhere and at any time. The next step is to make content available to everybody in order to overcome the existing access barriers to content for users with specific needs, or else to adapt to different platforms, hence making content fully usable and accessible. Appropriate access to video content, for instance, is not always possible due to the technical limitations of traditional video packaging, transmission and presentation. This restricts the flexibility of subtitles and audio-descriptions to be adapted to different devices, contexts and users. New Web standards built around HTML5 enable more featured applications with better adaptation and personalization facilities, and thus would seem more suitable for accessible