Nowadays, Cable TV operators provide their users multiple ways to watch TV content, such as Live TV and Video on Demand (VOD) services. In the last years, Catch-up TV has been introduced, allowing users to watch recent broadcast content whenever they want to. Understanding how the users interact with such services is important to develop solutions that may increase user satisfaction, user engag...

As TV watchers tweet about how they feel and what they see, they produce valuable information not only about the TV program but also how engaged they are to the program. We have already built a web service, SportSense, which recognizes major events in the US National Football League (NFL) games within 40 seconds after an event takes place by analyzing data retrieved from Twitter in real-time. I...

The design and implementation on different recording ways in Android Set-top Box (STB) are described. When consumers are watching a TV program, there are three alternative recording ways which are continuous recording, timer recording and time-shifting recording being designed for us to record the program, and the three kinds of recording ways are diacritical by the different trigger modes. Whe...

Purpose – TV changes in several disciplines concurrently: from analogue to digital, from scheduled broadcasts to on-demand TV on the internet, from a lean-back (passive) to a lean-forward (active) media, from straight watching to the consumption of content connected to additional services, from the sole TV viewer to the viewer being part in social networks and communities regarding to the TV co...

The current explosion of the number of available channels is making the choice of the program to watch an experience more and more difficult for TV viewers. Such a huge amount obliges the users to spend a lot of time in consulting TV guides and reading synopsis, with a heavy risk of even missing what really would have interested them. In this paper we confront this problem by developing a recom...