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With the rise in highly capable, mobile and networked secondary devices, the two-screen Enhanced TV is a more plausible proposition today than ever before. This paper presents a field trial of a prototype that aimed to understand a conceptual merger of TV and second screen user experiences. Our prototype concept can be described as a companion device experience that enhances TV viewing by providing auxiliary information and media on a second screen. The additional media is semantically related and synchronized, in terms of timeline, to the TV content. We ran a three-week field trial in 11 households. Participants used our prototype as a companion to their TV shows. We provided a total of 43 episodes from 10 popular TV shows throughout the study period. Overall feedback to our concept was quite positive. 10 out of our 11 participants said they enjoyed the experience. Our prototype allowed participants to better connect with their TV shows and have an enriched social life around TV. We also report some of the discovered user desires regarding user interaction design such as kinds of customization controls needed and the pacing of posts of additional information to the second screen.

We describe the design and field evaluation of the Serendipitous Family Stories system, a web and mobile service that allows for videos to be saved in user-specified real-world locations, shared with friends and family, and then serendipitously discovered as those people approach the location of a story. Through a twenty-participant field evaluation, we discovered how this new form of locationbased asynchronous communication can be used to strengthen family relationships by encouraging communication across generations and enhancing users' relationships with everyday places in their lives.

Families of critically ill patients frequently experience anxiety, depression, and acute stress. 1 To ease this burden, clinicians encourage families to play an active role in a patient's care by visiting the hospital and engaging with the ICU team. 2,3 During the COVID-19 pandemic, however, many hospital systems have prohibited family visitation to limit the spread of the disease. 4 Little is known about the family experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hypothesized that the lack of direct contact with the patient and the medical team would amplify the burden of anxiety, depression, and acute stress among families of ICU patients.

To determine the effect of daily written updates on the satisfaction and psychologic symptoms of families of ICU patients.DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial.