Social Interactive Television

作者:Pablo Cesar (CWI, The Netherlands)

页数:362

价格:USD 195.00

isbn号码:9781605666563

具体描述

Television, since its invention, has been considered to be a social link between people. Continually enhanced by innovation, the next frontier for this technological phenomenon will focus on the actual natural capabilities of the medium.

Social Interactive Television: Immersive Shared Experiences and Perspectives combines academic and industry research to provide the first publication of its kind to discuss the future emergence of experiences and services through interactive television. Concentrating on system and interaction design, as well as evaluation methods that focus on social experiences around interactive television, this book provides practitioners, academicians, researchers, and developers with the most relevant, current, and interesting findings on the topic.

作者简介

Pablo Cesar

Pablo Cesar is a postdoctoral researcher at CWI (The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands) in Amsterdam. He received a Dr. Tech. degree (December 2005) from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) and a M. Sc. degree (February 2002) from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain). Pablo Cesar has (co)authored over 40 articles (conference papers and journal articles) about multimedia systems and infrastructures, media sharing, interactive media, multimedia content modelling and user interaction. He is, as well, involved in standardization activities (e.g., SMIL from W3C). He is co-editor of the TOMCCAP special issue “Human-Centred Television: Directions in Interactive Digital Television Research.” In addition, he was the general chair of the 5th European Interactive conference (EuroITV2007) and has given tutorials about Interactive Digital Television in prestigious conferences such as ACM Multimedia and WWW Conferences.

David Geerts

David Geerts has a master in Communication Science at the K.U.Leuven and a master in Culture and Communication at the K.U.Brussel. He leads the Centre for User Experience Research (CUO), part of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) as well as the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT), is involved in several research projects on user-centered design and evaluation and is taking his doctor’s degree on Sociability of Interactive Television, with the purpose of developing guidelines and heuristics for designing and evaluating social television interfaces. He organized several workshops and SIGs at CHI2006, CHI2007 and CHI2008 and two workshops on Social Interactive Television at EuroITV2007 and EuroITV2008. David Geerts is co-founder of the Belgian SIGCHI.be chapter and program chair of EuroITV2009, the 7th European Interactive TV Conference.

Konstantinos Chorianopoulos

Konstantinos Chorianopoulos is a lecturer at the Department of Informatics at the Ionian University (Greece). He holds an MEng (Electronics and Computer Engineering, 1999) an MSc (Marketing and Communication, 2001) and a PhD (Human-Computer Interaction, 2004). During his studies and research, he has been affiliated with engineering, business and applied arts universities. Since 1997, he has worked in four academic research labs (Greece, UK, Germany), which specialize in the areas of multimedia, e-commerce, intelligent systems and interaction design. He has participated in many EC-funded research projects in the field of human-computer interaction for information, communication and entertainment applications in TV, mobile and situated computing devices. In 2002, he founded UITV.INFO, which is a newsletter and web portal for interactive television research resources (papers, theses), news and events. He is the main author of more than ten journal papers and he has lectured internationally (conferences, tutorials, seminars, guest lectures) on several aspects (design, engineering, science, art) of interactive TV. He is serving on the steering committee of the European Interactive TV organization and on the editorial boards of ACM Computers in Entertainment and of the Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting.

目录信息

1.
In Search of Social Television (pages 1-13)
Gunnar Harboe (Motorola, USA)
2.
Broadening the Effects of Broadcasting: How ITV can Collapse Distance and Transform Communication (pages 15-29)
Stefan Agamanolis (Distance Lab, UK)
3.
Interactive TV Together: An Open Service Infrastructure for Enhancing Interactive TV Experiences (pages 30-49)
Cristian Hesselman (Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands), Joost Broekens (Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands), Mark Gülbahar (Institut für Rundfunktechnik, Germany), Florian Winkler (NEC Europe Ltd., Germany), Daniel Görgen (Philips Research, The Netherlands), and Ferry de Jong (Logica, The Netherland)
4.
Social TV from a Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Perspective (pages 50-66)
Tom Gross (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany), Thilo Paul-Stueve (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany), and Mirko Fetter (Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany)
5.
Television Content Enrichment and Sharing: The Ambulant Annotator (pages 67-76)
Dick C.A. Bulterman (CWI-Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands), Pablo Cesar (CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands), Jack Jansen (CWI-Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands), and Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães (CWI-Centrum voor Wisku)
6.
Sociability Heuristics for Evaluating Social Interactive Television Systems (pages 78-98)
David Geerts (IBBT / K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
7.
Audience Participation in Television and Internet: Attitudes and Practices of Young People in Portugal (pages 99-117)
Celia Quico (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal)
8.
Methods for Involving Users in the Development of Social Interactive TV: Enhancing Usability and User Experience in Non-Traditional Environments (pages 118-137)
Regina Bernhaupt (IHCS – IRIT, France), Marianna Obrist (ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg, Austria), and Manfred Tscheligi (ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg, Austria)
9.
Inducing User Cooperation in Peer-to-Peer Television: Deriving Mechanisms from Psychological Theories (pages 138-156)
Jenneke Fokker (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Huib de Ridder (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Piet Westendorp (Delft University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), and Johan Pouwelse (Delft Universi)
10.
Getting to Know Social Television: One Team's Discoveries from Library to Living Room (pages 158-186)
Gunnar Harboe (Motorola, USA), Elaine Huang (Motorola, USA), Noel Massey (Motorola, USA), Crysta Metcalf (Motorola, USA), Ashley Novak (Motorola, USA), Guy Romano (Motorola, USA), and Joe Tullio (Motorola, USA)
11.
ConnectTV: Share the Experience (pages 187-201)
Erik Boertjes (TNO Information and Communication Technology, The Netherlands), Jente Klok (TNO Information and Communication Technology, The Netherlands), Omar Niamut (TNO Information and Communication Technology, The Netherlands), and Martijn Staal (TNO Informa)
12.
Asynchronous Communication: Fostering Social Interaction with CollaboraTV (pages 202-221)
Brian Amento (AT&T Labs – Research, USA), Chris Harrison (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Mukesh Nathan (University of Minnesota, USA), and Loren Terveen (University of Minnesota, USA)
13.
From 2BeOn Results to New Media Challenges for Social (i)TV (pages 222-242)
Jorge Ferraz Abreu (University of Aveiro, Portugal), and Pedro Almeida (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
14.
Examining the Roles of Mobility in Social TV (pages 244-253)
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos (Ionian University, Greece)
15.
Watching in Public: Understanding Audience Interaction with Big Screen TV in Urban Spaces (pages 254-268)
Kenton O’Hara (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia), and Maxine Glancy (BBC, UK)
16.
Zync with Me: Synchronized Sharing of Video through Instant Messaging (pages 269-284)
David A. Shamma (Yahoo! Research, USA), and Yiming Liu (Yahoo! Research, USA)
17.
Online Video as a Social Activity (pages 285-304)
Justin D. Weisz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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