- Social television
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.Description
As a concept, social television is not linked to a specific architecture such as cable,
IPTV ,peer-to-peer delivery, orinternet television . Nor is it necessarily limited to a traditional television screen, but could also be presented on acomputer orhandheld device such as acell phone .Important publications
* InteractiveTV Today [http://itvt.wordpress.com] - 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
* [http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/03/social_software_for_settop_boxes.shtml 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
* AMUSE: Mobile TV becomes Social - Integrating Content with Communications (ftw.; Schatz) - 2007Systems
* [http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/396811 AOLTV] (AOL)
* [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/itsmy_launches_personal_mobile_broadcasting.php itsmyTV] (itsmyTV. Mobile Community Broadcasting)
* [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2035635,00.asp TogetherTV] (Motorola)
* [http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/06/siemens-cose-service-to-enable-interactive-tv/ CoSe] (Siemens)
* [http://soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/socialitv/ConnecTV%20-%20Share%20the%20Experience.pdf ConnecTV] (TNO ICT)
* [http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/kris/research/publications/chi2006/wp433-luyten.pdf Telebuddies] (EDM)
* [http://www.ist-ipmedianet.org/Alcatel_EuroiTV2004_AmigoTV_short_paper_S4-2.pdf AmigoTV/MyOwnTV] (Alcatel-Lucent)
* [http://soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/socialitv/CollaboraTV%20-%20Making%20TV%20Social%20Again.pdf CollaboraTV] (AT&T Labs-Research)
* [http://amuse.ftw.at AMUSE Mobile Social TV] (ftw. - Telecommunications Research Center Vienna)
* [http://www.joost.com/ Joost]
* [http://www.tribler.org/ Tribler]
* [http://socialtv.mediazone.com/ MediaZone]See also
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Interactive television
*Social software
*Personal broadcasting 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__.External links
* [http://soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/socialitv/ EuroITV 2007 Social Interactive Television Workshop]
* [http://uxtv2008.org/ uxTV - International Conference on Designing Interactive User Experiences for TV and Video]
* [http://courses.interaction-ivrea.it/zoom/CirclesOfCare/solution.html TV Together] (Zoom in - Zoom out - based on mobile phones)
* [http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/29823/100000-TV-channels-on-itsmy Mobile social network - itsmy - launched 100,000 personal mobile TV channels] (itsmyTV - Mobile Entertainment Magazine UK 2008)
* [http://sippey.typepad.com/filtered/2005/01/fandom_in_a_vac.html Micro-communities of episodic entertainment viewers]
* [http://www.allpeers.com/blog/?p=76 Connecting couch potatoes] (Peer Pressure)
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1453299,00.html Second sight] (Dave Birch of The Guardian introduces the idea of sending videoclips to other people's set-top boxes)
* [http://www.alcatel.com/publications/abstract.jhtml?repositoryItem=tcm%3A172-195491635 Alcatel whitepaper on Amigo TV]
* [http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2005/03/parc_to_make_tv.html PARC to Make TV Watching More Social] (Business Week Online)
* [http://blog.fawny.org/2005/03/28/assstb/ Accessible social software for set-top boxes]
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