Augmenting Television With Augmented Reality

Saeghe, Pejman; Clinch, Sarah; Weir, B. S.; Glancy, Maxine; Vinayagamoorthy, Vinoba; Pattinson, Ollie; Pettifer, Steve; Stevens, Robert

doi:10.1145/3317697.3325129

Cited by 18 publications

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“…• Visually-oriented synchronous experiences across multiple devices [30,40,41,66] and headsets [18]; • Visually-oriented augmentations e.g. enhancing accessibility for TV [65,74] and immersive content [37], altering the surrounding environment for immersion [6], enhancing TV commercials [11], presenting other content [11,27,28,63] and other augmentations around the display, such as rendering elements of the program in 3D, or rendering holograms of others [51]; • Augmentations delivered synchronously that are not necessarily semantically linked to the underlying TV content. For example, social TV [7] has repeatedly utilized synchronized TV experiences at-a-distance alongside additional audio communication channels to allow shared, at-a-distance TV viewing e.g.…”

Section: Augmenting Tv Audiomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Visual consumer AR is currently costly, predominantly cumbersome (with some exceptions such as the NReal headset [42]) and of low-fidelity (e.g. in terms of field of view); the "fear of missing out" can be induced in non-AR equipped others in a shared setting [51]; and the very presence of visual AR arguably puts into question the necessity of the TV given content can be rendered virtually instead (although persuasive arguments can be made here regarding the superior luminosity and density of the TV, lower fatigue in attending to a physical display etc. ).…”

Section: Augmenting Tv Audiomentioning

confidence: 99%

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Augmenting TV Viewing using Acoustically Transparent Auditory Headsets

McGill

Mathis

Khamis

et al. 2020

ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

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This paper explores how acoustically transparent auditory headsets can improve TV viewing by intermixing headset and TV audio, facilitating personal, private auditory enhancements and augmentations of TV content whilst minimizing occlusion of the sounds of reality. We evaluate the impact of synchronously mirroring select audio channels from the 5.1 mix (dialogue, environmental sounds, and the full mix), and selectively augmenting TV viewing with additional speech (e.g. Audio Description, Directors Commentary, and Alternate Language). For TV content, auditory headsets enable better spatialization and more immersive, enjoyable viewing; the intermixing of TV and headset audio creates unique listening experiences; and private augmentations offer new ways to (re)watch content with others. Finally, we reflect on how these headsets might facilitate more immersive augmented TV viewing experiences within reach of consumers.

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Section: Augmenting Tv Audiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Augmenting Tv Audiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Augmenting TV Viewing using Acoustically Transparent Auditory Headsets

McGill

Mathis

Khamis

et al. 2020

ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

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“…Figure 4: Raw scores were multiplied by their weight factor: ×5 for rank 1, ×4 for rank 2, ×3 for rank 3, ×2 for rank 4, and ×1 for rank 5, and then summed up to compute weighted scores [26]. On-screen messages achieved the highest score (39), and wall messages the lowest (22).…”

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“…• Understanding Different Levels of Social Presence How can we better facilitate communications in social TV, with, for instance, virtual 3D avatars (e.g., [22]) or live video feeds from at-a-distance friends? Should such user representations be next to us (as in [16]), or next to the TV to enable us to see our friend's reactions interleaved with the content?…”

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Assessing Social Text Placement in Mixed Reality TV

Mathis

Zhang

McGill

et al. 2020

ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

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TV experiences are often social, be it at-a-distance (through text) or in-person (through speech). Mixed Reality (MR) headsets offer new opportunities to enhance social communication during TV viewing by placing social artifacts (e.g. text) anywhere the viewer wishes, rather than being constrained to a smartphone or TV display. In this paper, we use VR as a test-bed to evaluate different text locations for MR TV specifically. We introduce the concepts of wall messages, below-screen messages, and egocentric messages in addition to state-of-the-art on-screen messages (i.e., subtitles) and controller messages (i.e., reading text messages on the mobile device) to convey messages to users during TV viewing experiences. Our results suggest that a) future MR systems that aim to improve viewers' experience need to consider the integration of a communication channel that does not interfere with viewers' primary task, that is watching TV, and b) independent of the location of text messages, users prefer to be in full control of them, especially when reading and responding to them. Our findings pave the way for further investigations towards social at-a-distance communication in Mixed Reality. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Virtual reality.

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“…Augmented Reality (AR) technology provides new ways to enhance the television watching experience with new content, input and output modalities, interaction techniques, and interactive devices toward Augmented Reality TV [28,35,43], or ARTV for short. Examples of such new experiences include extending the feld of view beyond the TV screen [14,15,35,40], overlaying content on top of the TV broadcast [41], telepresence for social television watching [25,41], auditory enhancements [21], new ways to interact with the TV [26,29], assistance for sign language interpretation [44], and using new devices to consume TV content [3,4].…”

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AR-TV and AR-Diànshì: Cultural Differences in Users’ Preferences for Augmented Reality Television

Popovici¹,

Vatavu²,

Feng³

et al. 2021

ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

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As Augmented Reality television gains momentum, it is important to understand whether cultural diferences among viewers favor diferent expectations and preferences for immersion in such new television environments. A previous study documented the preferences of 172 participants from various European countries for twenty application scenarios for ARTV, such as virtual objects coming out of the TV screen into the room. In this work, we conduct an empirical generalization of this previous study to understand potential cultural diferences in users' preferences for and expectations of ARTV. To this end, we report insights from data collected from a sample of 147 participants from China, which we compare against the preferences expressed by the participants from Europe from the original study. Our fndings reveal similarities, but also diferences in terms of expectations of ARTV across the two cultural groups. We draw implications for future research on culturally-aware augmentations of the television watching experience. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Mixed / augmented reality; Empirical studies in HCI.

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Augmenting Television With Augmented Reality

Cited by 18 publications

References 10 publications

Augmenting TV Viewing using Acoustically Transparent Auditory Headsets

Augmenting TV Viewing using Acoustically Transparent Auditory Headsets

Assessing Social Text Placement in Mixed Reality TV

AR-TV and AR-Diànshì: Cultural Differences in Users’ Preferences for Augmented Reality Television

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