It is common today to see digital content made by nonprofessionals. This is particularly true on the Internet where numerous armature movies can be found in blogs and Social Network Systems such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. and in movie sharing services such as YouTube. However, TV-program-like film clips with high production value are found less frequently. There is still a considerable barrier ...

Playing TV game shows such as Jeopardy or Survivor in the classroom can be fun. But does it improve student understanding of course concepts? To find out, the author conducted eight experimental trials in five separate undergraduate information systems classes. Although he found limited improvement in student learning, the author’s experiences with the game and the results of a student survey w...

The next step of interactive TV services shows a trend towards the integration of new kind of services, but also trends concerning personalization, security and communication. We present findings from two ethnographic studies. These findings are used to inform the development of new forms of interaction concepts in the living room.

Until recently, western TV programming rarely featured sexual or ethnic minority members; if present, their representation was mostly negative. Increasingly, though, diverse characters start to play likeable protagonists as well. Thus, television can promote negative diversity attitudes and, at other times, positive ones. The present article reviews and connects theories research from sociology...

This paper demonstrates that automatic framing of TV shows is an interesting and tractable domain for both Computer Vision and Artiicial Intelligence. Our basic goal is to build intelligent robotic cameras (SmartCams) able to frame subjects and objects in a TV studio upon verbal request from a TV director. To cope with the problem of relating visual imagery to symbolic knowledge about the scene...

Flapping wings continuously create and send vortices into their wake, while imparting downward momentum into the surrounding fluid. However, experimental studies concerning the details of the three-dimensional vorticity distribution and evolution in the far wake are limited. In this study, the three-dimensional vortex wake structure in both the near and far field of a dynamically scaled flappin...

There is a great need for more TV programs to be subtitled to help hearing impaired and elderly people to watch TV. NHK has researched automatic speech recognition for subtitling live TV programs in real time efficiently. Our speech recognition system learns frequent words and expressions expected in the program beforehand and also learns characteristics of announcers’ voices in order to reduce...

Researchers often collect continuous consumer feedback (“moment-to-moment,” or MTM, data) to understand how consumers respond during a variety of experiences (ranging from viewing a TV show to undergoing a colonoscopy). Analyzing how MTM judgments are integrated into overall evaluations allows researchers to determine how the structure of an experience influences consumers’ post-experience sati...