Going Beyond Second Screens: Applications for the Multi-display Intelligent Living Room
This work addresses the challenge of improving media consumption for viewers in smart home environments, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing multi-display concepts without major breakthroughs.
The paper tackled the problem of enhancing sports and movie watching experiences in intelligent living rooms by developing two ambient media players that provide secondary information on multiple displays without disrupting immersion. The expert evaluation identified key factors influencing the experience, but no concrete numerical results were reported.
This work aims to investigate how the amenities offered by Intelligent Environments can be used to shape new types of useful, exciting and fulfilling experiences while watching sports or movies. Towards this direction, two ambient media players were developed aspiring to offer live access to secondary information via the available displays of an Intelligent Living Room, and to appropriately exploit the technological equipment so as to support natural interaction. Expert-based evaluation experiments revealed some factors that can influence the overall experience significantly, without hindering the viewers' immersion to the main media.