Gunnar Harboe
Frank Bentley
ABSTRACT
We examine how ambient displays can augment social television. Social TV 2 is an interactive television solution that incorporates two ambient displays to convey to participants an aggregate view of their friends' current TV-watching status. Social TV 2 also allows users to see which television shows friends and family are watching and send lightweight messages from within the TV-viewing experience. Through a two-week field study we found the ambient displays to be an integral part of the experience. We present the results of our field study with a discussion of the implications for future social systems in the home.
- Aipperspach, R., Rattenbury, T., Woodruff, A., Canny, J. (2006) A Quantitative Method for Revealing and Comparing Places in the Home. Proc. Ubicomp 2006. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Baillie, L., Fröhlich, P., Schatz, R. (2007) Exploring Social TV. In Proc. ITI 2007: 215--220.Google Scholar
- Bernard, H.R. (1998) Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. Walnut Creek, CA : Altamira Press.Google Scholar
- Beyer, H., & Holtzblatt, K. (1998). Contextual design: Defining customer--centered systems. San Francisco, CA : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Boertjes, E. (2007) ConnecTV: Share the Experience. In EuroITV 2007 Adj. Proc.Google Scholar
- Brown, B., Taylor, A., Izadi, S., Sellen, A., Kaye, J. (2007) Locating Family Values: A Field Trial of the Whereabouts Clock. In Proc. Ubicomp 2007. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (2006) American Time Use Survey. ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/atus.txtGoogle Scholar
- Consolvo, S., Roessler, P., Shelton, B.E. (2004) The CareNet Display: Lessons Learned from an In Home Evaluation of an Ambient Display. Proc. Ubicomp 2004.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Coppens, T., Trappeniers, L. Godon, M. (2004). AmigoTV: towards a social TV experience. In Proc. EuroITV 2004.Google Scholar
- Crispell, D. (1997) "TV soloists - Statistics on number of television sets owned in households from SRI Consulting's Media Futures Program", American Demographics, May 1997.Google Scholar
- DeGuzman, E.S., Yau, M., Gagliano, A., Park, A., Dey, A.K. (2004) Exploring the design and use of peripheral displays of awareness information. CHI 04 Ext. Abstracts. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Dey, A.K. and DeGuzman, E.S. (2006) From Awareness to Connectedness: The Design and Deployment of Presence Displays. In Proc. CHI '06: 899--908. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Eggen, B., Rozendaal, M., Schimmel, O. (2003) Home Radio: Extending the Home Experience beyond the Physical Boundaries of the House. In Proc. HOIT 2003.Google Scholar
- Geerts, D. (2006) Comparing voice chat and text chat in a communication tool for interactive television. In Proc. NordiCHI 2006: 461--464. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Harboe, G., Massey, N., Metcalf, C.J., Wheatley, D., Romano, G. (2008) The Uses of Social Television. In Comput. Entertain. 6, 1 (Jan 2008). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Harrison, C. and Amento, B. (2007) CollaboraTV - Making TV Social Again. In EuroITV 2007 Adj. Proc.Google Scholar
- Hemmeryckx-Deleersnijder, B. and Thorne, J.M. (2007) Awareness and Conversational Context Sharing to Enrich TV Based Communication, In Proc. EuroITV 2007: 1--10. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Hindus, D., Mainwaring, S.D., Leduc, N., Hagström, A.E., Bayley, O. (2001) Casablanca: Designing Social Communication Devices for the Home. In Proc. CHI '01. Google ScholarDigital Library
- LeCompte, M. and Schensul, J. (1999) Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research. Walnut Creek, CA : Altamira Press.Google Scholar
- Lull, J. (1990). Inside family viewing: Ethnographic research on television's audiences. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
- Luyten, K., Thys, K., Huypens, S., Coninx, K. (2006) Telebuddies: Social Stitching with Interactive Television. In CHI 2006 Extended Abstracts. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Markopoulos, P., de Ruyter, B., Mackay, W.E. (2005) Awareness Systems: Known Results, Theory, Concepts and Future Challenges. CHI 05 Ext. Abstracts. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Oehlberg, L., Ducheneaut, N., Thornton, J. D., Moore, R. J., Nickell, E. (2006). Social TV: Designing for Distributed, Sociable Television Viewing. In Proc. EuroITV 2006: 25--26.Google Scholar
- Regan, T. and Todd, I. (2004) Media Center Buddies: Instant Messaging around a Media Center. In Proc. NordiCHI 2004: 141--144. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Rhodes, B. and Maes, P. (2000) Just-in-time information retrieval agents. IBM Systems Journal 39(3--4). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Rowan, J. and Mynatt, E. D. (2005) Digital Family Portrait Field Trial: Support for Aging in Place. In Proc. CHI '05: 521--530. Google ScholarDigital Library
- de Ruyter, B., Huijnen, C., Markopoulos, P., IJsselstein, W. (2003) Creating social presence through peripheral awareness. In Proc. HCI International 2003.Google Scholar
- Vetere et al. (2005) Mediating Intimacy: Designing Technologies to Support Strong--Tie Relationships. In Proc. CHI '05: 471--480. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Weisz, J. D., Kiesler, S., Zhang, H., Ren, Y., Kraut, R. E., Konstan, J. A. (2007) Watching together: integrating text chat with video. In Proc. CHI '07: 877--886. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Ambient social tv: drawing people into a shared experience
Recommendations
CollaboraTV: making television viewing social again
UXTV '08: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Designing interactive user experiences for TV and videoWith the advent of video-on-demand services and digital video recorders, the way in which we consume media is undergoing a fundamental change. People today are less likely to watch shows at the same time, let alone the same place. As a result, ...
The uses of social television
Social television and user interactionWe present the results of two studies on social television concepts. In one study, a social TV prototype was tested in the field, allowing groups of users watching television at home to talk to each other over an audio link. Specific patterns of use are ...
Engaging viewers through social TV games
EuroITV '12: Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Interactive TV and VideoIPTV platforms have revealed a great potential for the viewers' involvement by allowing the development of services and applications related with the TV content. Taking advantage of both the potentialities of these platforms and game related dynamics ...
Comments