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Interactive television news

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ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 8, Issue 2

Article No.: 19, Pages 1 - 20

https://doi.org/10.1145/2168996.2168999

Published: 22 May 2012 Publication History

Abstract

A new interactive television experience has been created for watching television news. The goal is to create a news experience that is similar to the way people watch television in their living rooms while giving viewers the power to make choices about what they see. We partnered with existing news organizations to create tools consistent with current news production practices. The viewer experience allows selection of the order of news content, skipping unwanted content and exploring stories in more depth. These tools were used to produce seven days of interactive commercial news that were viewed in ten homes.

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Luque FGalloso IFeijoo CMartín CCisneros G(2014)Integration of Multisensorial Stimuli and Multimodal Interaction in a Hybrid 3DTV SystemACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications10.1145/261799211:1s(1-22)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2617992
Olsen DSellers BBoulter TOlivier PWright PBartindale TObrist MCesar PBasapur S(2014)Enhancing interactive television newsProceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video10.1145/2602299.2602300(11-18)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2602299.2602300

Index Terms

Interactive television news
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Multimedia information systems

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ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications Volume 8, Issue 2

May 2012

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ISSN:1551-6857

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DOI:10.1145/2168996

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Published: 22 May 2012

Accepted: 01 January 2011

Received: 01 October 2010

Published in TOMM Volume 8, Issue 2

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Luque FGalloso IFeijoo CMartín CCisneros G(2014)Integration of Multisensorial Stimuli and Multimodal Interaction in a Hybrid 3DTV SystemACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications10.1145/261799211:1s(1-22)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2617992
Olsen DSellers BBoulter TOlivier PWright PBartindale TObrist MCesar PBasapur S(2014)Enhancing interactive television newsProceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video10.1145/2602299.2602300(11-18)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2602299.2602300

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