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Kaptein, R. (author), Zhu, Y. (author), Koot, G. (author), Redi, J. (author), Niamut, O. (author)The use of social TV applications to enhance the experience of live event broadcasts has become an increasingly common practice. An event profile, defined as a set of keywords relevant to an event, can help to track messages related to these events on social networks. We propose an event profiler that retrieves relevant and interesting tweets in...conference paper 2015
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Geerts, D. (author), van Deventer, O. (author), Köbel, C. (author), Heidkamp-Tchegloff, B. (author)Social TV has been an active area of research for more than a decade now, but most research has focused on interaction between remote participants, either through direct communication or more indirect e.g. in the form of social recommendations. However, an issue that has been mostly neglected in social TV research is how to deal with multiple co...conference paper 2013
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Mekuria, R.N. (author), Stokking, H.M. (author), van Deventer, M.O. (author)Inter-destination media (play-out) synchronization for social TV has gained attention from research and industry in recent years. Applications include social TV and interactive game shows. To motivate further research of inter-destination synchronization technologies, pilot measurements of play-out differences in different TV-broadcasting...conference paper 2011
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Geerts, D. (author), Vaishnavi, I. (author), Mekuria, R.N. (author), van Deventer, M.O. (author), Cesar, P. (author)Synchronization between locations is an important factor for enabling remote shared experiences. Still, experimental data on what is the acceptable synchronization level is scarce. This paper discusses the synchronization requirements for watching online videos together - a popular set of services that recreate the shared experience of watching...conference paper 2011
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Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek (author), Mekuria, R.N. (author)This thesis presents a study on the application of inter-destination synchronization for TV-broadcasting. Inter-destination media synchronization implies synchronizing media output at different receivers. This thesis starts by investigating differences in media output between receivers of TV broadcasts at different locations and different...doctoral thesis 2011
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Limonard, S. (author), Esmeijer, J. (author), Staal, M. (author), TNO Informatie- en Communicatietechnologie (author)This paper proposes a framework to assess the business feasibility of TV services creating a social TV experience. This framework should enable designers and business decision makers to assess the business potential of services enhancing social communication such as Social TV, social gaming services and telepresence video conferencing.conference paper 2009