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Implementation of social features over regular IPTV stb

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Jorge F. Abreu,

Pedro Almeida,

Ricardo Pinto,

Vanessa NobreAuthors Info & Claims

EuroITV '09: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video

Pages 29 - 32

https://doi.org/10.1145/1542084.1542089

Published: 03 June 2009 Publication History

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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 being developed. However a high number of these experiments and proposals are not yet implemented over regular commercial IPTV platforms and can take some time to be available with a compelling graphical and interaction design.

The Social TV application WeOnTV, covered in this paper, was developed in the staging platform of PT Inovação IPTV infrastructure. The work and evaluation so far showed promising results including a successful test over the MEO - IPTV commercial solution. The paper focuses on feasible approaches taken towards the interface design and implementation of WeOnTV's social features, which can be useful as directions to other iTV developments over regular browser based set-top boxes.

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Implementation of social features over regular IPTV stb
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
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EuroITV '09: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video

June 2009

240 pages

ISBN:9781605583402

DOI:10.1145/1542084

General Chairs:
Dirk De Grooff
CUO, IBBT / K.U.Leuven, Belgium
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Pablo Cesar
CWI, The Netherlands
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David Geerts
CUO, IBBT / K.U.Leuven, Belgium

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de Abreu JAlmeida PAfonso JSilva TDias R(2011)Participatory Design of a Social TV Application for Senior Citizens – The iNeighbour TV ProjectENTERprise Information Systems10.1007/978-3-642-24352-3_6(49-58)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24352-3_6
Cremonesi PTurrin RVuorimaa PNaranen PLugmayr AQuico CHarboe G(2010)Time-evolution of IPTV recommender systemsProceedings of the 8th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video10.1145/1809777.1809801(105-114)Online publication date: 9-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1809777.1809801
Cesar PChorianopoulos K(2009)The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward InteractivityFoundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction10.1561/11000000082:4(373-95)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2009
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