interactions
Cultural probes and the value of uncertainty
interactions - Funology
The television will be revolutionized: effects of PVRs and filesharing on television watching
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Comparing voice chat and text chat in a communication tool for interactive television
Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
Watching together: integrating text chat with video
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Computers in Entertainment (CIE) - Interactive TV
Ambient social tv: drawing people into a shared experience
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The bittorrent p2p file-sharing system: measurements and analysis
IPTPS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems
Collaborative synchronous video annotation via the watch-and-comment paradigm
Proceedings of the seventh european conference on European interactive television conference
Explore social behavior around rich-media: a structured diary study
Proceedings of the seventh european conference on European interactive television conference
The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward Interactivity
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
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The focus of this article is the link between video sharing and interpersonal communication on the internet. Previous works on social television systems belong to two categories: 1) studies on how collocated groups of viewers socialize while watching TV, and 2) studies on novel Social TV applications (e.g. experimental set-ups) and devices (e.g. ambient displays) that provide technological support for TV sociability over a distance. The main shortcoming of those studies is that they have not considered the dominant contemporary method of Social TV. Early adopters of technology have been watching and sharing video online. We employed cultural probes in order to gain in-depth information about the social aspect of video sharing on the internet. Our sample consisted of six heavy users of internet video, watching an average of at least one hour of internet video a day. In particular, we explored how they are integrating video into their daily social communication practices. We found that internet video is shared and discussed with distant friends. Moreover, the results of the study indicate several opportunities and threats for the development of integrated mass and interpersonal communication applications and services.