Design of a Smart TV Logging System Using Beacons and Smartphones

Abstract

In this paper, a smart TV logging system comprising a beacon system and smartphones is proposed. To investigate the feasibility of our strategy, we designed and implemented a prototype system and conducted a trial study. The study results show that the prototype can unobtrusively capture viewers' various events embedded in TV viewing behavior. The results of the study also suggest that the proposed method allows more robust and accurate data to be collected than do the TV viewing behavior analysis approaches used in existing qualitative research studies, such as surveys and interviews.

Smart TV-Based Lifelogging Systems: Current Trends, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

“…In addition to these users' data, smartphone app-use information was used to figure out what users did while watching TV. Another smart TV logging system has been proposed [58] consisting of a Beacon system, a smartphone, and a camera. This system's main purpose is to precisely determine the user viewing activities and viewer behavior in a household.…”

“…Different approaches such as computer vision, machine learning, recording and observing in the lab environment, human interaction, surveys, and content analysis have been used to measure the viewers' behavior patterns [63][64][65][66][67][68]. The data collected through the logging system is more robust and authentic than the qualitative research studies such as surveys and interviews [58]. Therefore, the development and use of smart TV-based lifelogging systems (smart-log) are one of the best choices to analyze and identify household family members' various watching behavior patterns.…”