Broadcast Multimedia, Arthur Lugmayr, Samuli Niiranen, and Seppo Kalli, Springer, 2004, $80, 254 pp., ISBN 0-38720843-7. In the 1930s, television gradually found its way into consumers’ homes. With the introduction of color TV in the 1960s, it became a widespread and highly accepted consumer product. It has taken another 40 years to bring a new innovation into the world of TV: the digitalizatio...

This thesis deals with the problem of presenting and managing multiple live audiovisual data streams for television viewing. Prior work has dealt with content presentation and navigation in a large information space and typically has not concerned itself with the time critical aspect of the data. This thesis extends and modifies these concepts and applies them to entertainment. A general purpos...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of excess television time and verify correlated factors in adolescent males and females. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 2,105 adolescents aged from 13 to 18 years from the city of Aracaju, Northeastern Brazil. Television time was self-reported, corresponding to the time spent watching television in a typical week. Sev...

Example 1: The following is from an editorial in the Midvale Observer, a local newspaper. "Ever since the 1950s, when television sets began to appear in the average home, the rate of crimes committed by teenagers in the country of Alta has steadily increased. This increase in teenage crime parallels the increase in violence shown on television. According to several national studies, even very y...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether television viewing, computer game playing or book reading during meals predicts meal skipping with the aim of watching television, playing computer games or reading books (media meal skipping). DESIGN A cross-sectional study was conducted using a standardized self-administered questionnaire. Analyses were controlled for age, gender and BMI. SETTING Data were obt...

Obesity is a major public health concern in the United States. Over the last several decades, the prevalence of obesity among both adults and children has grown at an alarming rate and is now reaching epidemic proportions. The increase in obesity has been associated with rises in a host of other chronic conditions including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and some cancers. While the ca...