FXPAL MediaMagic video search system

This paper describes FXPAL's collaborative, exploratory interactive video search application. We introduce a new approach to information retrieval: algorithmic mediation in support of intentional, synchronous collaborative exploratory search. Using our ...

This article is motivated by the question whether television should do more than simply offer interactive services alongside (and separately from) traditional linear programs, in the context of its dominance being seriously challenged and threatened by ...

iTV does not yet have truly interactive programmes, that is programmes whose content adapts to the preferences of their viewers. In commercially deployed iTV productions, the programmes themselves are essentially linear and therefore non-interactive. In ...