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Mobility in a Personalized and Flexible Video-based Transmedia Environment

Authors:
Alcina Prata
Teresa Chambel

Keywords: HCI; mobility; video; transmedia; iTV

Abstract:
This paper addresses the effective design of Transmedia environments to generate personalized additional video information from iTV, PC and mobile devices with a special focus on mobile devices. It presents the opportunities and challenges of the inclusion of mobile devices on this ubiquitous environment, turning it into a true “ecosystem of devices”, designed and evaluated based on cognitive and affective aspects that influence the user experience. The system generates a Transmedia personalized web-based content, which provides extra information about users’ selected topics of interest while watching a specific video. The web content may be generated and accessed through iTV, PC and mobile devices. Depending on the users needs, that web content may be viewed immediately or stored for latter view, individually or simultaneously, from these devices. An evaluation was carried out with a special focus on mobile devices, complementing previous evaluations with iTV and PC environments. The achieved results were very good considering that they helped rethink our mobile related assumptions and they showed that the integration of mobile devices on the environment was a success.

Pages: 314 to 320

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: November 20, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-171-7

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 20, 2011 to November 25, 2011