GeoTV: navigating geocoded rss to create an iptv experience

The Web is rapidly moving towards a platform for mass collaboration in content production and consumption from three screens: computers, mobile phones, and TVs. While there has been a surge of interests in making Web content accessible from mobile devices, there is a significant lack of progress when it comes to making the web experience suitable for viewing on a television. Towards this end, we describe a novel concept, namely GeoTV, where we explore a framework by which web content can be presented or pushed in a meaningful manner to create an entertainment experience for the TV audience. Fresh content on a variety of topics, people, and places is being created and made available on the Web at breathtaking speed. Navigating fresh content effectively on TV demands a new browsing paradigm that requires fewer mouse clicks or user interactions from the remote control. Novel geospatial and temporal browsing techniques are provided in GeoTV that allow users the capability of aggregating a...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Yih-Farn Chen, Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, David C. Gibbon, Rittwik Jana, Serban Jora, Bernard Renger, Bin Wei
• Keywords: Fresh Content, Internet Technology, IPTV Environment, Temporal Browsing Techniques, WWW 2007