ACM TVX2015, the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video, presents an exciting three-day program with various types of content and presentations from 3-5 June 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. Wednesday 3rd June is the pre-conference day, offering courses, workshops and a doctoral consortium for PhD students. On Thursday 4th June, a keynote speaker will open, after which several authors will present their full papers, short papers and TVX in Industry presentations. An exhibition area will showcase the Work in Progress posters, demos and sponsor booths. The day will close with a joint conference dinner. On Friday 5th June, the main conference program continues with more full papers, short papers and TVX in Industry presentations, after which the conference will be officially closed and next year’s conference will be announced.
Sessions overview
Thursday, June 4
Session 1: Social Experiences and Awareness (11:15-12:30)
Session chair: Santosh Basapur
Experiencing Liveness of a Cherished Place in the Home – Full Paper
Jinyi Wang, Mudassar Ahmad Mughal, Oskar Juhlin
Audience Silhouettes: Peripheral Awareness of Synchronous Audience Kinesics for Social Television – Full Paper
Radu-Daniel Vatavu
It Takes Two (To Co-View): Collaborative Multi-View TV – Full Paper
Mark McGill, John Williamson, Stephen Brewster
EuropeanaTV: Open Up Culture, Enrich Television – TVX in Industry
Kelly Mostert, Lizzy Komen
Session 2: Experiencing Live Events (14:15-15:30)
Session chair: Wendy Van den Broeck
First Person Omnidirectional Video : System Design and Implications for Immersive Experience – Full Paper
Shunichi Kasahara, Shohei Nagai, Jun Rekimoto
Interactive UHDTV at the Commonwealth Games – An Explorative Evaluation – Full Paper
Judith A. Redi, Lucia D’Acunto, Omar Niamut
Towards an Extended Festival Viewing Experience – Full Paper
Raphael Velt, Steve Benford, Stuart Reeves, Michael Evans, Maxine Glancy, Phil Stenton
The Wall of Moments: an immersive event experience – TVX in Industry
Rik Bauwens, Tine Deboosere, Luk Overmeire
Friday, June 5
Session 3: Context-aware systems (9:30-10:30)
Session chair: Rene Kaiser
Experimental Enquiry into Automatically Orchestrated Live Video Communication in Social Settings – Full Paper
Marian Ursu, Manolis Falelakis, Martin Groen, Rene Kaiser, Michael Frantzis
Broadcast, Video-on-Demand, and Other Ways to Watch Television Content: a Household Perspective – Full Paper
Jeroen Vanattenhoven, David Geerts
Towards personalized linear TV? – TVX in Industry
Sarie Robijt, Steven Thys
Session 4: Multi-screening (11:00-12:30)
Session chair: Omar Niamut
Who’s The Fairest Of Them All: Device Mirroring For The Connected Home – Full Paper
Mark McGill, John Williamson, Stephen Brewster
“I’m just on my phone and they’re watching TV”: Quantifying mobile device use while watching television – Full Paper
Christian Holz, Frank Bentley, Karen Church, Mitesh Patel
Introducing Linked Television: a broadcast solution for integrating the Web with your TV content – TVX in Industry
Lyndon Nixon
The death of second screens and a new role for broadcasters – TVX in Industry
Hendrik Dacquin
Session 5: Design for User Experience and Engagement (14:00-15:15)
Session chair: Marian Ursu
Dynamic Subtitles: the User Experience – Full Paper
Andy Brown, Rhianne Jones, Michael Crabb, James Sandford, Matthew Brooks, Caroline Jay, Mike Armstrong
EnvDASH – An Environment-Aware Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP System – Short Paper
Stefan Wilk, Denny Stohr, Wolfgang Effelsberg
8 Things to Consider when Designing Interactive TV Experiences – TVX in Industry
Noor Ali-Hasan, Bianca Soto
HbbTV Application Toolkit – TVX in Industry
Christoph Ziegler, Janina Renz, Martin Gordon, Stefan Arbanowski, Robert Seeliger, Miggi Zwicklbauer