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Bringing the television experience to other media in the home: an ethnographic study

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Emmanuel Tsekleves,

Annette HillAuthors Info & Claims

EuroITV '09: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video

Pages 201 - 210

https://doi.org/10.1145/1542084.1542125

Published: 03 June 2009 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we report on a study conducted in 2007 and 2008 looking at the media use habits of 27 families in the Greater London area. The project builds on previous ethnographic work studying media use within a similar group in 2006. The study investigated attitudes towards different types of media and the role Television (TV) currently plays and could play within the home environment. Following a participatory design methodology, we rapidly prototyped an experimental home media device and asked participants and use and respond to it. We explored the issues such as interactional simplicity and sharing media using a TV using the experimental device as a focal point for discussion and the generation of new ideas.

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Bringing the television experience to other media in the home: an ethnographic study
1. Applied computing
  1. Operations research
    1. Consumer products
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping

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EuroITV '09: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video

June 2009

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ISBN:9781605583402

DOI:10.1145/1542084

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