Introduction
In this full day workshop on sharing content and experiences with social interactive television, researchers and practitioners will discuss issues such as different types of content and experience sharing in social television, implementing social sharing features, designing for and evaluating sociability in iTV systems that allow sharing, the impact of the home context on social interactive television, etc.
The workshop will be held on July 2, 2008 at EuroITV2008 in Salzburg, Austria.
Important update (29/4/08):
The accepted papers are now available for download.
Description of topic
The workshop “Social Interactive Television” at EuroITV 2007 showed that there is a lot of activity in academia as well as in industry around applications that support social interaction via interactive television. Most of this research and development has been focussed on enabling communication between remote households, resulting in several working prototypes of social interactive television systems. However, less research and development has been directed at other forms of social interaction, like sharing content or recommendations, or rating content to inform others. On the web, user-generated content (UGC) sites such as Flickr or YouTube are hugely popular, as well as social filtering and recommendation sites like del.icio.us or digg.
The growing public interest for audiovisual UGC, recommendations and user ratings suggest that integrating these features in interactive television has a lot of potential. One notable research project investigates how people can annotate clips of existing television programs, and share them with others. There is however a growing need to understand how these systems should be developed, evaluated and implemented, from a technical point of view as well as from the perspectives of HCI and the social sciences.
This workshop seeks to address the issues of sharing content and experiences with social television by bringing together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners who are interested in enhancing sharing through interactive television.