Emotionally reactive television

  • Authors:

  • Chia-Hsun Jackie Lee;Chaochi Chang;Hyemin Chung;Connor Dickie;Ted Selker

  • Affiliations:

  • MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

When is an interface simple? Is it when it is invisible or very obvious, even intrusive? From the time TV was created, watching TV is considered as a static activity. TV audiences have very limited choices to interact with TV, such as turning on/off, increasing/decreasing volume, and traversing among different channels. This paper suggests that TV program should have social responses to people, such as affording and accepting audience's emotional feeling with the growth of technologies. This paper presents HiTV, an Emotionally-Reactive TV system using a digitally augmented soft ball as affect-input interfaces that can amplify TV program's video/audio signals. HiTV transforms the original video and audio into effects that intrigue and fulfill people's emotional expectation.