Social television
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Social television (also social interactive television) is a general term for technology that supports communication and interaction in the context of watching television, or related to TV content. It also includes the study of television-related social behavior. Social television systems can for example integrate voice communication, text chat, presence and context awareness, TV recommendations, ratings, or video-conferencing with the TV set. Social television is an active area of research and development. Most existing social television systems are on a conceptual stage, or exist as lab prototypes, beta or pilot versions.
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[edit] Description
As a concept, social television is not linked to a specific architecture such as cable, IPTV, peer-to-peer delivery, or internet television. Nor is it necessarily limited to a traditional television screen, but could also be presented on a computer or handheld device such as a cell phone.
[edit] Important publications
- InteractiveTV Today [1] - News about the evolution of social TV as it emerges on interactive multiplatform television. Founded in 1998.
- 2BeOn (Abreu, Almeida, Branco) – 2001
- Reality Instant Messenger (Chuah) – 2002
- Reflexion (Cullinan, Agamanolis) – 2002
- TV Cabo Interactiva (Quico) – 2003
- AmigoTV (Alcatel-Lucent; Coppens et al.) – 2004
- Social software for set-top boxes (Coates) – 2005
- Social TV: Designing for Distributed, Sociable Television Viewing (Xerox PARC; Oehlberg, Ducheneaut, Thornton, Moore, Nickell) - 2006
- CollaboraTV: Using Asynchronous Communication to Make Television Social Again. (AT&T Labs-Research; Harrson, Amento) - 2007
- ConnecTV: Share the Experience (TNO ICT; Boertjes) - 2007
[edit] Systems
- AOLTV (AOL)
- itsmyTV (itsmyTV. Mobile Community Broadcasting)
- TogetherTV (Motorola)
- CoSe (Siemens)
- ConnecTV (TNO ICT)
- Telebuddies (EDM)
- AmigoTV/MyOwnTV (Alcatel-Lucent)
- CollaboraTV (AT&T Labs-Research)
- Joost
- Tribler
- MediaZone
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Lora Oehlberg, Nicolas Ducheneaut, James D. Thornton, Robert J. Moore, Eric Nickell. Social TV: Designing for distributed, sociable television viewing. In Proc. of EuroITV (Athens, Greece, May 2006).
- Regan & Todd (2004) __Media Center Buddies: Instant Messaging around a Media Center__.
[edit] External links
- EuroITV 2007 Social Interactive Television Workshop
- TV Together (Zoom in - Zoom out - based on mobile phones)
- Mobile social network - itsmy - launched 100,000 personal mobile TV channels (Mobile Entertainment magazine UK)
- Micro-communities of episodic entertainment viewers
- Connecting couch potatoes (Peer Pressure)
- Second sight (Dave Birch of The Guardian introduces the idea of sending videoclips to other people's set-top boxes)
- Alcatel whitepaper on Amigo TV
- PARC to Make TV Watching More Social (Business Week Online)
- Accessible social software for set-top boxes
