CELL: Connecting Everyday Life in an archipeLago
This addresses the problem of social isolation in distributed educational communities, particularly in remote areas, but appears incremental as it builds on existing interactive TV concepts.
The paper tackles the challenge of connecting remote secondary education schools through a seamless broadcast communication system, presenting the physical design and conceptual model of an ambient and social interactive TV platform to support social communication.
We explore the design of a seamless broadcast communication system that brings together the distributed community of remote secondary education schools. In contrast to higher education, primary and secondary education establishments should remain distributed, in order to maintain a balance of urban and rural life in the developing and the developed world. We plan to deploy an ambient and social interactive TV platform (physical installation, authoring tools, interactive content) that supports social communication in a positive way. In particular, we present the physical design and the conceptual model of the system.