A brief history of social iTV entertainment
Proceedings of the 13th International MindTrek Conference: Everyday Life in the Ubiquitous Era
The role of the traditional TV in the age of intermedial media spectacles
Proceedings of the 8th international interactive conference on Interactive TV&Video
Characterizing the transport behaviour of the short message service
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
New social & collaborative interactive TV program formats
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
Computers in Entertainment (CIE) - Theoretical and Practical Computer Applications in Entertainment
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Interactive TV entertainment has brought to life a new kind of TV game show host culture in Finland. A qualitative study of SMS-to-TV human-hosted interactive TV games, specifically, TV-mobile games and call quizzes, was conducted by recording sample interactive TV programs and corresponding discussion forums on the Internet and analyzing the content. The role of the human host in these programs was analyzed and discussed to answer these questions: Why is this interactive entertainment popular? What different dimensions can be found? How could this field be used more effectively and what are the aspects developers should pay attention to while designing iTV entertainment? This research is important beyond Finland since Finland tends to pioneer interactive entertainment that later spreads out to other countries