An emergent role for TV in social communication

Doug Williams*, Marian F. Ursu, Pablo Cesar, Karl Bergström, Ian Kegel, Joshan Meenowa

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Abstract

This paper discusses early results from the EU FP7 project together Anywhere Together Anytime (TA2).TA2 is related to the use of television as a device which supports social interactions between groups.The paper introduces the idea of framing experiences, within which social communication can take place, and explains that social communication is a key motivator in a number theories on a human motivation. The paper reports how some ideas from framing experiences were evaluated through semi structured interviews with 16 families across 4 European countries. It discusses how some of the key issues and behaviours mentioned by users generate a number of hypotheses about how such communications could be improved.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEuroITV'09 - Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on European Interactive Television Conference
Pages19-28
Number of pages10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Sept 2009
EventEuroITV'09 - 7th European Conference on European Interactive Television Conference - Leuven, United Kingdom
Duration: 3 Jun 20095 Jun 2009

Conference

ConferenceEuroITV'09 - 7th European Conference on European Interactive Television Conference
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLeuven
Period3/06/095/06/09

Keywords

  • Orchestration
  • Social communications

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