ImTV: Towards an Immersive TV experience

• Main Author: Magalhães, João
• Publication Date: 2012
• Other Authors: Strover, Sharon, Chambel, Teresa, Viana, Paula, Andrade, Maria Teresa, Revilla, Luis Francisco, Martins, Flávio, Correia, Nuno
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/10856
• topic: Immersive TV; Social TV; Personalized TV; 360º video

The media marketplace has witnessed an increase in the amount and types of viewing devices available to consumers. Moreover, a lot of these are portable, and offer tremendous personalization opportunities. Technology, distribution, reception and content developments all influence new 'television' viewing/using habits. In this paper, we report results and findings of a transnational three year research project on the Future of TV. Our main contributions are organized into three main dimensions: (1) a user survey concerning behaviors associated with media engagement; (2) technologies driving the social and personalized TV of the 21st century, e.g. crowdsourcing and recommendation systems; and (3) technologies enabling interactions and visualizations that are more natural, e.g. gestures and 360º video.