watching TV PROGRAMME

The workshop is organised primarily as a forum for discussions and knowledge exchange. The discussions will be seeded by invited keynote presentations and selected papers from the accepted submissions, which all describe results or ongoing work in areas related to the theme of the workshop.

The workshop is structured along three tracks:

  • Socio-Cognitive Aspects – defining facets of the experience of social belonging and togetherness

  • System Design – specifying requirements for TV-centric systems that support social interaction

  •  Enabling Technologies – analysing capabilities of existing core technologies that could be employed in the development of TV-centric systems for social interaction.

Each track includes 1 invited keynote presentation and 3 selected papers. Each track is 1 hour and 30 minutes long, with approximately 1 hour allocated to presentations and 30 minutes to discussions. A final discussions’ session of 1 hour and 30 minutes bring s all the perspectives together and concludes the workshop.

Tentative programme

09:00 - 09:15 Introductions, Setting the Context: The Aims and Structure of the Workshop (pdf)
Marian F Ursu
Track 1. Socio-Cognitive Perspective: defining facets of the experience of social belonging and togetherness in mediated communication
09:15 - 09:35 KEYNOTE. Experience, Narrative and Interaction in TV-Centred Communication (pdf)
Frank Nack, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
09:35 - 09:50 (i)TV Brings People Together? How the Feeling of Togetherness Can Be Built (pdf)
Pauliina Tuomi
09:50 - 10:05 Strengthen the TV Experience Beyond the TV (pdf)
Sara Kepplinger, Florian Förster, Judith Igelsböck and Marianna Obrist
10:05 - 10:20 Presence and Mediated Interaction: A Means to an End? (pdf)
Lizzy Bleumers, Tim Van Lier and An Jacobs
10:20 - 10:45 Discussions
10:45 - 11:00 Break
Track 2. System Design Perspective: specifying requirements for TV-centric systems that support social interaction
11:00 - 11:20 KEYNOTE. Communicational Engineering: Towards an Extended Telecommunications Research Agenda at the Other Side of the Reality Fence (abstract)
Jan Bouwen, Alcatel-Lucent-Bell, Belgium
11:20 - 11:35 From Social TV to Structured Communication Formats (pdf)
Gunnar Harboe and Santosh Basapur
11:35 - 11:50 Good to See You – User Responses to a TV-Based Video Telephony Service (pdf)
Will Seager and Hendrik Knoche
11:50 - 12:05 Sharing Enriched Interactive Experiences with the iNEM4U Software Framework (pdf)
Cristian Hesselman and Keir Shepherd
12:05 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch Break
Track 3. Enabling Technologies Perspective: capabilities of core technologies that could be employed in the development of TV centric systems for social interaction
13:45 - 14:05 KEYNOTE. What's in the box? The building blocks of a TV-centred social communication system (pdf)
Ian Kegel, BT, UK
14:05 - 14:20 ANSWER: Documentation, Formal Conceptualisation and Annotation of New Media (pdf)
Angelos Yannopoulos, Yannis Christodoulou, Stefanos Koutsoutos, Katia Savrami, Theodora Varvarigou and Vassilis Alexandrou
14:20 - 14:35 A Multimedia Content Semantics Extraction Framework for Enhanced Social Interaction (pdf)
Giuseppe Passino, Tomas Piatrik, Ioannis Patras and Ebroul Izquierdo
14:35 - 14:50 A Collective Director for Highly Interactive Viewing of Live Sports Events (pdf)
Zhenchen Wang, Stefan Poslad and Alan Pearmain
14:50 - 15:15 Discussions
15:15 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:00 Final Discussions



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