Improving interactive TV using a mobile applications

Recent paper produce by Dr Mu Mu:

Improving interactive TV experience using second screen mobile applications

Mu, M., Knowles, W. and Race, N.

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia. Miami, Florida: IEEE Computer Society Press. (In Press)

Abstract
The past two decades have seen a shift in the multimedia consumption behaviours from that of collectivism and passivity, to individualism and activity. This paper introduces the architectural design, implementation and user evaluation of a second screen application, which is designed to supersede the traditional user control interface for primary screen interaction. We describe how NSMobile, our second screen application, can be used as a pervasive multimedia platform by integrating user experiences on both the second screen and primary screen. The quantitative and qualitative evaluation of user interactions with interactive TV content also contributes to the future design of second screen applications.



Mu, M., Knowles, W. and Race, N. (2015) Improving interactive TV experience using second screen mobile application


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Creating Interactive Content using Scratch

Two members of the Department of Computing and Immersive Technologies, Dr Maurice Hendrix (Lecturer) and Tom Rose (Undergraduate Student) have been involved in the cross-school project around flipped classrooms with colleagues from the Schools of Health and The Arts.

The following link:  http://dna-fc.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/creating-interactive-content-with.html shows the work Tom Rose posted on using the programming language Scratch to create interactive educational content.

To read more about the project go to: http://dna-fc.blogspot.co.uk/



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Interactive TV

Recent MSc Computing (Internet Technology and Security) dissertation work within the School of Science and Technology, University of Northampton, UK by  James Smith.

Interactive TV applied to internet broadcast media 

James Smith

Abstract

This paper presents a prototype system to enable the creation of synchronised interactive events linked to a YouTube video.

The purpose of the system is to create a generic platform providing a method to improve viewer engagement in the subject matter of a given YouTube video. The paper researches the platform requirements, builds the prototype system, and evaluates its success by means of user experience testing.

The paper concludes that people under 30 find it easier to user the proposed system and that people spend slightly longer watching internet videos than terrestrial TV. 

Supervisor: Dr Scott Turner and Dr Suraj Ajit.

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