Newstream: a multi-device, cross-medium, and socially aware approach to news content

  • Authors:
  • Reed Martin;Henry Holtzman

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA;MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th international interactive conference on Interactive TV&Video
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

News content extends well beyond the scope of a single medium: video, audio, text, interactive experiences, and social sharing all contribute to an individual's understanding and experience of content. While some content that exists across media can supplement other forms, such as an interactive feature accompanying a text-based article, other content might replicate information and therefore be redundant to a consumer. This paper introduces Newstream, a novel approach to navigating news-based content across a variety of media sources. Building off of prior work, neXtream, Newstream can craft specialized experiences that both facilitate common dialogs within social networks and allow users to dynamically move across various mediums, controlling levels of depth based on interest while avoiding repetition. Newstream integrates multiple devices and networks to maintain unified back-end knowledge about each user.