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Social TV: The impact of social awareness on content navigation within IPTV systems

Social TV: The impact of social awareness on content navigation within IPTV systems Social TV: The Impact of Social Awareness on Content Navigation within IPTV Systems KEITH MITCHELL, 21 Media Innovations Ltd. ANDREW JONES, JOHNATHAN ISHMAEL, and NICHOLAS J. P. RACE, Lancaster University Internet Television (IPTV) is emerging as a new delivery method for offering access to digital TV and interactive services which potentially merge the œlean back  broadcast experience with more bidirectional œlean forward  interactivity. Within these environments, there is a signi cant growth in the volume and variety of content being offered which increases the dif culty and burden for the end-user in locating relevant content and nding something to watch. In this article we detail the design, implementation, and evaluation of a production IPTV service which operates on our University campus network. Our approach makes use of social networks as a mechanism for providing social awareness to individual users of an IPTV system. The goal is to facilitate an intuitive and simple media selection mechanism when considering vast amounts of live TV channels and on-demand content. Ultimately, we seek to explore whether social awareness can or does in ‚uence user behavior. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.4.3 [Information Systems Applications]: Communications Applications; H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Computers in Entertainment (CIE) Association for Computing Machinery

Social TV: The impact of social awareness on content navigation within IPTV systems

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Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 by ACM Inc.
ISSN
1544-3574
DOI
10.1145/2027456.2027465
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Abstract

Social TV: The Impact of Social Awareness on Content Navigation within IPTV Systems KEITH MITCHELL, 21 Media Innovations Ltd. ANDREW JONES, JOHNATHAN ISHMAEL, and NICHOLAS J. P. RACE, Lancaster University Internet Television (IPTV) is emerging as a new delivery method for offering access to digital TV and interactive services which potentially merge the œlean back  broadcast experience with more bidirectional œlean forward  interactivity. Within these environments, there is a signi cant growth in the volume and variety of content being offered which increases the dif culty and burden for the end-user in locating relevant content and nding something to watch. In this article we detail the design, implementation, and evaluation of a production IPTV service which operates on our University campus network. Our approach makes use of social networks as a mechanism for providing social awareness to individual users of an IPTV system. The goal is to facilitate an intuitive and simple media selection mechanism when considering vast amounts of live TV channels and on-demand content. Ultimately, we seek to explore whether social awareness can or does in ‚uence user behavior. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.4.3 [Information Systems Applications]: Communications Applications; H.5.1 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]:

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Computers in Entertainment (CIE)Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Nov 1, 2011

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