Towards Multi-Screen Social TV with Geo-Aware Social Sense. Hu, H., Wen, Y., Luan, H., Chua, T., & Li, X. IEEE MultiMedia, 2014.
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The increasing popularity of social interactions and geo-tagged user generated contents (UGC), has been transforming the television (TV) experience, from a "laid-back" video watching behavior into a "lean-forward" social-engaged experience. This article envisions a multi-screen social TV integrated with social sense via a second screen as a novel paradigm for content consumption. This new application is built upon our cloud-centric media platform, which provides on-demand virtual machines for content platform services, including media distribution, storage, processing, etc. The media platform is also integrated with our big-data social platform (i.e., Social Sense), which crawls and mines social data in the context of contents. Specifically, this new social TV consists of three key subsystems, including interactive TV, social sense, and multi-screen orchestration. Interactive TV implements cloud-based social TV system, offering rich social features; social sense discovers the geo-location-aware public perception and knowledge related to the media content; multi-screen orchestration provides an intuitive and user-friendly human-computer interface to combine the above two subsystems, fusing the TV experience with social perception. We have built a proof-of-concept demo over a private cloud at NTU. The feature verification and performance comparison demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our innovation in transforming TV experience.
@article{hu_towards_2014,
	title = {Towards {Multi}-{Screen} {Social} {TV} with {Geo}-{Aware} {Social} {Sense}},
	volume = {Early Access Online},
	issn = {1070-986X},
	doi = {10.1109/MMUL.2014.2},
	abstract = {The increasing popularity of social interactions and geo-tagged user generated contents (UGC), has been transforming the television (TV) experience, from a "laid-back" video watching behavior into a "lean-forward" social-engaged experience. This article envisions a multi-screen social TV integrated with social sense via a second screen as a novel paradigm for content consumption. This new application is built upon our cloud-centric media platform, which provides on-demand virtual machines for content platform services, including media distribution, storage, processing, etc. The media platform is also integrated with our big-data social platform (i.e., Social Sense), which crawls and mines social data in the context of contents. Specifically, this new social TV consists of three key subsystems, including interactive TV, social sense, and multi-screen orchestration. Interactive TV implements cloud-based social TV system, offering rich social features; social sense discovers the geo-location-aware public perception and knowledge related to the media content; multi-screen orchestration provides an intuitive and user-friendly human-computer interface to combine the above two subsystems, fusing the TV experience with social perception. We have built a proof-of-concept demo over a private cloud at NTU. The feature verification and performance comparison demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our innovation in transforming TV experience.},
	journal = {IEEE MultiMedia},
	author = {Hu, H. and Wen, Y. and Luan, H. and Chua, T. and Li, X.},
	year = {2014},
	keywords = {Cloning, Context, Media, Performance evaluation, Social network services, TV, Virtual machining}
}

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