This study found that participant’s previous teletext experience and previous iTV experience influenced their openness towards using interactive television in planning independent longhaul holidays. The study surveyed participants for their previous interactive media experience (internet, iTV and teletext) before viewing a linear or interactive television destination promotion. Two ad models (i...

Outreach efforts by faculty members are oftentimes limited in scope due to hectic schedules. We developed a program to enhance science literacy in elementary school children that allows experts to reach a tremendous audience while minimizing their time commitment. The foundation of the program is a television series entitled "Desert Survivors." The episodes air on local cable access television ...

The hypothesis that exposure to televised violence serves to increase children's toleration of real-life aggression was investigated. Fifth-grade boys and girls were exposed to either a violent television excerpt or a nonviolent, exciting control program. Immediately thereafter, each child was lead to believe that he had been given responsibility for monitoring the behavior of two younger child...

The present television system was designed nearly 50 years ago. Since then, there have been significant developments in technology, which are highly relevant to the television industry. For example, advances in the very large scale integration (VLSI) technology and signal processing theories make it feasible to incorporate frame-store memory and sophisticated signal processing capabilities in a...

This demo presents a method of detecting television programs in TV streams. The objective is to automatically detect the precise start and end of broadcasted television programs. The method first detects inter-programs (commercials, trailers. . . ) as repeated sequences in the broadcast stream, and then deduces the programs boundaries. The extracted programs can then be stored in a database to ...

Holmes on Homes is a Canadian home improvement television program and the centrepiece of HGTV (Home and Garden Television), featuring Mike Holmes as the series’ star contractor and host. This paper argues that by looking back at earlier incarnations of film and television melodrama, we can determine the way in which Holmes on Homes reinvents the home improvement subgenre. By playing out reality...

In this paper, we propose a new framework to annotating subtitled YouTube EDU media fragments using textual features such as exert all the basic portions extracted from the web-based natural language processors of in relation to subtitles and temporal features such as duration of the media fragments where proper entities are spotted. We've created the SY-E-MFSE (Subtitled YouTube EDU Media...