Beyond Canned Television

Childhood overweight and obesity--beyond television viewing.

From the Department of Forensic Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India Received: Nov. 11, 2014; Accepted: Jan. 13, 2015 Correspondence to: Dr. Tanuj Kanchan, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal University, India. State Highway 65, Madhav Nagar, Manipal, India. Tel.: 91‐9448252394; Fax: 91‐824‐2428183; E‐mail: tanuj.kanchan@ ...

Beyond-screen Interface for Interactive Television

Canned Lightsources

Complex luminaries and lamp geometries can greatly increase the realism of synthetic images. Unfortunately, the correct rendering of illumination from complex lamps requires costly global illumination algorithms to simulate the indirect illumination reflected or refracted by parts of the lamp. Currently, this simulation has to be repeated for every scene in which a lamp is to be used, and even ...

Life beyond Individual Choice: Group Behaviour in Television Audiences

There is a rich marketing literature which uses television audience datasets to model, optimize or predict choice behaviours of television viewers and optimize firm decisions (e.g. Rust, Kamakura and Alpert, 1992; Shachar & Emerson, 2000; Moshkin & Shachar 2002; Bahrat and Shahar, 2004.) Some of these models have generated useful theoretical generalizations to enrich marketing scholarship. Almo...

The Gamification of Television : is there life beyond badges ?

The television domain is an apt target for gamification given demand for new ways to track, engage and retain viewing audiences. While early applications in social TV show promise, we identify three challenges that need to be addressed. First, television is by nature a lean-back experience; game design must adeptly balance passive attention with active interaction behaviors. Second, a focus on ...