Television Content Enrichment and Sharing: The Ambulant Annotator

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Contrary to the traditional role of television viewers as passive spectators, there are strong indications that there is room for more active television watching (Ursu et al., 2008; Agamanolis, 2008). However, according to recent research (Jensen, 2005; Chorianopoulos, 2008), it would not be the flavor of interactivity with complex applications that require concentration, long time spans, and distraction from television viewing. Instead, they point out that television applications should provide new interactivity models particularly designed for television. “Lazy interactivity is a low-attention-span paradigm designed for television viewers” (Jensen, 2005). That is, interactive applications intended for quick decision, short attention spans, handheld remotes, and instant gratification. Lazy interactivity thus requires a simpler interface involving minimal consumer effort. The contribution of this chapter is to provide a lazy interactive paradigm for content manipulation and sharing. On the one hand, the Authoring from the Couch paradigm empowers the user with manipulation functionality over television content, thus leveraging the user potential impact on the content he is consuming. On the other hand, the paradigm provides the user with sharing capabilities for communicating using media with his social network. This section is divided into two research trends: multimedia authoring systems and video sharing systems.