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2008
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Ambient social tv: drawing people into a shared experience

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Ambient social tv: drawing people into a shared experience
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 TVwatching 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. Author Keywords Social television, interactive television, social presence awareness, ambient displays, field trial ACM Classification Keywords H5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI): Miscellaneous.
Gunnar Harboe, Crysta J. Metcalf, Frank Bentley, J
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where CHI
Authors Gunnar Harboe, Crysta J. Metcalf, Frank Bentley, Joe Tullio, Noel Massey, Guy Romano
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