ExciTube - Video Player for Sharing Viewer’s Excitement

Takumi Shirokura, Nagisa Munekata, Tetsuo Ono

2014

Abstract

We can share non-verbal emotional experiences, such as excitement and pleasure, by watching movies and sports events with others, like our friends and family. These shared experiences are thought to enhance excitement and pleasure compared to when watching videos alone. Our research provides this shared experience on the internet by sharing the viewer's excitement with others while watching videos that are on the web. We studied the relationship between users’ excitement while watching videos on the web and their impressions of those videos. Here, we introduce a video player called ExciTube that allows users to share their excitement and view other users’ excitement as visual information alongside the video they are watching. The user’s excitement is expressed and shared by using avatars. We carried out user-involved demonstrations of ExciTube at our laboratory and at a Japanese domestic Computer Entertainment Developers Conference, and confirmed that people did enjoy using the system and felt other people’s sense of excitement.

References

  1. Abreu, J., Almeida, P., & Branco, V., 2002. 2BeOn: interactive television supporting interpersonal communication, pp. 199-208.
  2. Baillie, L., Frohlich, P., & Schatz, R., 2007. Exploring Social TV. In 2007 29th International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces. IEEE, pp. 215- 220.
  3. Chagas, A. B. & Ferraz, C. A. G., 2012. ConnecTV. In Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web - WebMedia 7812. New York, USA: ACM Press, pp. 83-90.
  4. Coppens, T., Trappeniers, L., & Godon, M., 2004. Amigotv: towards a social TV experience. In Proceedings from the Second European Conference on Interactive Television.
  5. Ducheneaut, N. et al., 2008. Social TV: Designing for Distributed, Sociable Television Viewing. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 24(2), pp. 136-154.
  6. Fairclough, S., 2009, Fundamentals of physiological computing. Interacting with Computers, 21(1), pp. 133-145.
  7. Fowles, D.C. et al., 1981. Publication Recommendations for Electrodermal Measurements. Psychophysiology, 18(3), pp. 232-239.
  8. Geerts, D., 2006. Comparing voice chat and text chat in a communication tool for interactive television. In Proceedings of the third Nordic conference on humancomputer interaction - NordiCHI 7804. New York, USA: ACM Press, pp. 461-464.
  9. Harboe, G. et al., 2008. Ambient social TV. In Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual CHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI 7808. New York, USA: ACM Press, pp. 1-10.
  10. Harrison, C. and Amento, B., 2007. Collaboratv: Using asynchronous communication to make TV social again. Adjunct Proceedings of EuroITV, pp. 218-222.
  11. Janssen, J. H. et al., 2010. Intimate Heartbeats: Opportunities for Affective Communication Technology. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 1(2), pp. 72-80.
  12. Lotan, G. and Croft, C., 2007. Impulse; In CHI 7807 extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems, pp. 1983-1988.
  13. Luyten, K. et al., 2006. Telebuddies. In CHI 7806 extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems - CHI EA 7806. New York, USA: ACM Press, pp. 1049- 1054.
  14. Mandryk, R. L., Inkpen, K. M., & Calvert, T. W., 2006. Using psychophysiological techniques to measure user experience with entertainment technologies. Behaviour & Information Technology, 25(2), pp. 141- 158.
  15. Munekata, N. et al., 2006. Design of positive biofeedback using a robot's behaviors as motion media. In Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Entertainment Computing -ICEC'06. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 340-349.
  16. Regan, T. & Todd, I., 2004. Media center buddies. In Proceedings of the third Nordic conference on humancomputer interaction - NordiCHI 7804. New York, USA: ACM Press, pp. 141-144.
  17. Shamma, D. A. et al., 2008. Enhancing online personal connections through the synchronized sharing of online video. In CHI 7808 extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems - CHI 7808. New York, USA: ACM Press, pp. 2931-2936.
  18. Slovák, P., Janssen, J., & Fitzpatrick, G., 2012. Understanding heart rate sharing. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on human factors in computing systems - CHI 7812. New York, USA: ACM Press, pp. 859-868.
  19. Werner, J., Wettach, R., & Hornecker, E., 2008. Unitedpulse. In Proceedings of the 10th international conference on human computer interaction with mobile devices and services - MobileHCI 7808. New York, USA: ACM Press, pp. 535-538.
Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

Shirokura T., Munekata N. and Ono T. (2014). ExciTube - Video Player for Sharing Viewer’s Excitement . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems - Volume 1: PhyCS, ISBN 978-989-758-006-2, pages 315-322. DOI: 10.5220/0004726503150322


in Bibtex Style

@conference{phycs14,
author={Takumi Shirokura and Nagisa Munekata and Tetsuo Ono},
title={ExciTube - Video Player for Sharing Viewer’s Excitement},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems - Volume 1: PhyCS,},
year={2014},
pages={315-322},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004726503150322},
isbn={978-989-758-006-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems - Volume 1: PhyCS,
TI - ExciTube - Video Player for Sharing Viewer’s Excitement
SN - 978-989-758-006-2
AU - Shirokura T.
AU - Munekata N.
AU - Ono T.
PY - 2014
SP - 315
EP - 322
DO - 10.5220/0004726503150322