Inhabited television: broadcasting interaction from within collaborative virtual environments
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction and collaborative virtual environments
Testing Media Richness Theory in the New Media: the Effects of Cues, Feedback, and Task Equivocality
Information Systems Research
2BeOn: interactive television supporting interpersonal communication
Proceedings of the sixth Eurographics workshop on Multimedia 2001
Media center buddies: instant messaging around a media center
Proceedings of the third Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
Telebuddies: social stitching with interactive television
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A comparison of chat and audio in media rich environments
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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) - Social television and user interaction
Ambient social tv: drawing people into a shared experience
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Enhancing online personal connections through the synchronized sharing of online video
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Collaborative synchronous video annotation via the watch-and-comment paradigm
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
A social approach to authoring media annotations
Proceedings of the 10th ACM symposium on Document engineering
Improving the online video chat experience
EHAWC'11 Proceedings of the 2011th international conference on Ergonomics and health aspects of work with computers
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Many online video sites provide a text chat feature so viewers can chat with others while watching videos. How does chatting affect their experience? Would audio chat be more fun or would it be too distracting? The richer medium of audio may more closely approximate the living room or club experience, but human factors research suggests that audio chat could increase distraction and detract from the viewing experience. This paper presents the results of an experiment comparing text with audio chat when the video does or does not have dialogue, and when viewers are watching the videos in the same or a different order. A control group watched videos without chat. Overall, audio chat and text chat were equally distracting, and chat was more distracting when the video contained dialogue. Despite the presence of distraction, viewers found both text and audio chat enjoyable. Those who used audio chat preferred it to text chat for talking with others while watching videos with their friends.