In this paper we report on a study conducted in 2007 and 2008 looking at the media use habits of 27 families in the Greater London area. The project builds on previous ethnographic work studying media use within a similar group in 2006. The study ...

In the future Mobile TV will play a major role amongst traditional TV services. However, since Mobile TV brings new aspects into television, like small screens, consumption in noisy surroundings, etc., it also represents a new challenge on how to create,...

This paper presents the results of an empirical study concerning the effectiveness of interactive advertising presentation models. Particularly, the paper is concerned with two presentation models, whose main differentiation feature is based on whether ...

This paper presents the results of an exploratory study, part of my Ph.D., focusing on 'viewer empowerment' in the audiovisual industry due to digitization and the emerging 'architecture of participation' [1] of Web2.0. In the 'traditional' broadcasting ...

This paper presents the concept of viewer feedback in the production of multi-channel, live TV shows. The IST-FP6 project "LIVE - Live Staging of Media Events" is developing a production support system which will provide personalized content ...

We evaluate and compare the user acceptance of alternative text input methods for an interactive TV application. We are interested in whether remote control-based input methods are acceptable alternatives to the standard keyboard, when the user is ...

In this paper, we describe a novel approach of integrating semantic information into video player interfaces. As opposed to the common approach of using static keyframes representing video segments we provide an interactive preview slider combined with ...

The enormous offer of video content on the internet and its continuous growth make the selection process increasingly difficult for end-users. This overabundance of audio-visual material can be handled by a recommendation system that observes user ...

The increasing availability of distributed digital TV and multimedia (MM) resources - content and Web services - on the Web, raises the need to automatically retrieve and process resources to satisfy a given context. In order to fulfill a particular ...

This paper presents a new architecture to make TV sets accessible for all. Our proposal is based on the ISO/IEC 24752 Universal Remote Console Framework standard. This standard defines an abstract user interface layer called the "user interface socket" ...

In-situ studies and evaluations are increasingly appreciated and requested by companies and developers. Direct feedback from the users is seen as important source to further improve a system, to make it usable, acceptable and useful to the users in a ...

Earlier work has described the WaCTool, which allows a user to perform multimodal annotations (text, digital ink and audio comments) and edit operations on a linear video, producing an interactive video as a result. The fact that the prototype had been ...

Social TV research area has benefited in the late years from the dissemination of IPTV services and related technological possibilities. Features of presence, communication and recommendation have been proposed and are now more common in the prototypes ...

This paper discusses early results from the EU FP7 project Together Anywhere Together Anytime (TA2).TA2 is related to the use of television as a device which supports social interactions between groups.The paper introduces the idea of framing ...

This study compared user expectations and post-experience value judgments of TV based video calling with Personal Computer (PC)/webcam and face to face communications experiences. Eighteen same gender participant pairs carried out three tasks requiring ...