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Interactive television news

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A new interactive television experience has been created for watching television news. The goal is to create a news experience that is similar to the way people watch television in their living rooms while giving viewers the power to make choices about what they see. We partnered with existing news organizations to create tools consistent with current news production practices. The viewer experience allows selection of the order of news content, skipping unwanted content and exploring stories in more depth. These tools were used to produce seven days of interactive commercial news that were viewed in ten homes.

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        cover image ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
        ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications  Volume 8, Issue 2
        May 2012
        144 pages
        ISSN:1551-6857
        EISSN:1551-6865
        DOI:10.1145/2168996
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        • Published: 22 May 2012
        • Accepted: 1 January 2011
        • Received: 1 October 2010
        Published in tomm Volume 8, Issue 2

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