Social interactive television immersive shared experiences and perspectives /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Cesar, Pablo., Chorianopoulos, Konstantinos, 1975-, Geerts, David, 1973-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Interactive television.; Audience interaction with TV; Effects of broadcasting; Involving users in social TV development; Mobility in social TV; Online video as a social activity; Sociability heuristics; Social interactive television systems; Synchronized sharing of video; Television content enrichment and sharing; User cooperation in peer-to-peer television
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xxii, 340 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-325) and index.
• ISBN: 9781605666570 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

Television, since its invention, has been considered to be a social link between people. Continually enhanced by innovation, the next frontier for this technological phenomenon will focus on the actual natural capabilities of the medium. This book combines academic and industry research to provide the first publication of its kind to discuss the future emergence of experiences and services through interactive television. Concentrating on system and interaction design, as well as evaluation methods that focus on social experiences around interactive television, it provides practitioners, academicians, researchers, and developers with the most relevant, current, and interesting findings on the topic.