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Saturday, 16 October. Track 2 13:00-16:00
TP-4 Designing and Evaluating Social Video and Television
Intended audience
The target audience for this course is researchers and practitioners who specialize in designing or evaluating online audiovisual applications (either online video applications or interactive television) and want to increase their focus on social aspects of these applications. The course requires basic knowledge of the different kinds of social media applications (such as Facebook and Twitter) as well as of standard usability evaluation methods (such as user testing and inspection methods). No prior knowledge of social audiovisual media or sociability is required.
Abstract
Due to increasing bandwidths, resulting in faster download times and higher video quality, the popularity of watching online video and television is growing. As watching video is often a social activity, more and more sites are combining streaming video with social media such as Facebook and Twitter or are including (video) chat possibilities alongside the videos offered. The purpose of this course is to teach participants new insights in the design and evaluation of social video and television applications to come to a deeper understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these applications and discuss the trade-off between usability and sociability. A hands-on exercise will leave participants with practical experience that can be directly applied.
Authors and affiliation
David Geerts Centre for User Experience Research (CUO)
Prior experience
Eindhoven Birds of a Feather (BOF) group of CHI Nederland at theTechnical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands (26/3/2009). EuroITV2009, in Leuven, Belgium, where it was more focused on interactive television (3/6/2009). An updated version of the course will be taught at EuroITV2010 in Tampere, Finland (9/6/2010).**The most recent developments in social video and television applications will be included
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