SURFing the home with your TV

Authors:
Dimitrios Voutsas;Christine Halverson
Affiliations:
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Computer Science, Los Angeles, CA;IBM Research, 650 Harry Rd E3/456, San Jose, CA
Venue:
MULTIMEDIA '00 Proceedings of the eighth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Year:
2000

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Abstract

SURF (Simple UI to Retrieve Favorites) is a system with which a user can interact, through a TV, both with electronic devices inside the house and with the World Wide Web (WWW). The user communicates with the TV by voice in two modes: reactive and proactive. We illustrate how, by speaking naturally, the user can check on locations in the home, or get information from appliances and specific information from the Internet, in a manner that does not interrupt the TV viewing experience.