Discovering TV Contents in a 2nd Screen

Springer eBooks, 2004

2012

HbbTV, an emerging standard for interactive television, is being deployed in various European countries, creating bandwidth demand for interactive services in existing saturated broadcast networks. It is a first step in the direction of TV apps, but we believe the winning technology in that area is multi-screen apps on and around the TV. In this paper, we describe the current situation with HbbTV and apps, what can be done with existing technologies, high-potential scenarios and our plans to make them possible by combining existing standards with limited extensions, creating a platform implementing a multi-application service model, and open source software tools spanning management and production of this new type of service, within the Coltram project

2015

In this paper, the concept of second screen applications designed for better television advertising is proposed. To create a pleasant experience for users, the advertisements are moved from the television to second screens, delivered at the right time and integrated into fact sheets and small games in order to interest and amuse the users. This will al- low to create a more personalized and interactive television advertising, without interrupting movies and TV shows.

2008

iFanzy is a personalized TV guide application aiming at offering users television content in a personalized and context-sensitive way. It consists of a client-server system with multiple clients and devices such that the user can ubiquitously use TV set-top box, mobile phone and Web-based applications to select and receive personalised TV content.

The integration of semantic technologies and TV services is a substantial innovation to improve the services to users in an environment that is extended beyond the fixed home environment. But currently, this integration is mainly limited to provide personalized recommendation services and systems by matching user static preferences. Designing and development of interactive TV (iTV) applications using semantic technologies are not realized yet. In this work, we explore the potential of introduction semantic technologies and smart spaces in design and development of iTV applications. We use an example scenario to show how future iTV applications include the mesh-up of information from different sources. We proposed a methodology and show how ontology-driven approach can help to design and develop these iTV applications. We demonstrate the suitability of our ontology-driven application development tools and rule-based approach for the development of highly dynamic context-aware iTV applications.

• Lynda Hardman. Coordinator of the Information Theme, a member of the institute's management team and a member of the Information Access research group at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Type of the presentation proposed In-use contribution: Presentations with a practical, industry-or user-oriented focus by representatives of technology providers, adopters, and user organizations. Summary of the presentation Increasingly, European citizens consume television content on, or with, devices connected to the Internet where they can look up related information. In parallel, Europe is publishing growing amounts of Linked Open Data, including rich metadata about its cultural heritage. The LinkedTV project's goal is to seamlessly interlink TV and Web content to enrich the user's experience of both. Linked Data and semantic technologies enable broadcasters to achieve added value for their content at low cost through the re-use of existing and extracted metadata. We present two user studies (on Interactive News and the Hyperlinked Documentary) and the end-user interface for a second screen application for Linked Television.

Proceedings of the XV Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web - WebMedia '09, 2009

With the advent of digital television and the possibility of transmission of new services (in the analogue system, channels) a lot of information will be released in comparison to traditional analog system. The electronic programming guide (EPG) responsible for organizing such information has become inefficient because of the large volume of data provided by service providers. So that viewers can dealing with this information overload, are necessary tools to identify their needs and preferences. Personalized recommendation systems emerge as a solution to that problem, providing the viewer programs relevant to your profile. In this paper we present a personalized recommendation system, the RecommenderTV consistent with the reference implementation of the middleware Ginga. The implementation of the system RecommenderTV demanded the inclusion of new features to the middleware Ginga-NCL none exists in the implementation of reference. The service providers (in the analog system, broadcasters) and its importance to the system RecommenderTV are discussed in this work. Finally, we are reported the results obtained from the experiments with the system of recommendation implemented.

2008

Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases 2001, 2001

This paper describes the organisational and playback features of Físchlár, a digital video library that allows users to record, browse and watch television programmes online. Programmes that can be watched and recorded are organised by personal recommendations, genre classifications, name and other attributes for access by general television users. Motivations and interactions of users with online television libraries are outlined and they are also supported by personalised library access, categorised programmes, a combined player browser with content viewing history and content marks. The combined player browser supports a user who watches a programme on different occasions in a non-sequential order.

2007

Interacting with digital media is at the epicentre of every household. In recent years Interactive Television (iTV) has become a household technology on a global scale. However, iTV is still a new technology in the early stages of its evolution. Our previous research looked at how everyday users of iTV feel about the interactive part of iTV. In a series of studies we investigated how people use iTV services; their likes, dislikes, preferences and opinions. We then developed a second screen-based prototype device in response to these findings and tested it with iTV users in their own homes. This is a work in progress paper that outlines the work carried previously in the area of controlling interactive Television via a second screen. The positive user responses led us to extend the scope of our previous research to look into other related areas such as barriers to digital interactive media and personalisation of digital interactive media at home. The paper is organised into three sections. The first section presents the main aims and objectives of our previous and current research work. The second section provides an outline of our previous research methodology, prototype systems and results. The third section provides the reader with information on the progress of our research endeavours up-to-date and discusses some of the main findings of the first user study conducted thus far.