Responsive Television consists of a stream of media objects and procedural metadata that describes responses to viewer actions, identity, context, and equipment. Such a system enables providing personalized or responsive content even given a broadcast or multicast environment, and doesn’t require potentially sensitive information about the viewer to be transmitted back to the source. A barrier ...

In today's dynamic world economy, traditional business approaches no longer meet the needs of market survival, growth and profitability, and entrepreneurship is presented to families, institutions, and individuals as a necessity. One of the main concerns is to create productive employment for young people in the country, which requires the necessary platform for entrepreneurship. The favorable ...

In recent years, a ,iumber of claims have appeared in the popular media and press suggesting that television viewing has potentially detrimental effects on human brain development or activity. An extensive review of the published scientific literature finds that virtually no credible experimental evidence appears to exist in the current literature which specifically relates to the effects of te...

We aimed to evaluate the association between family socioeconomic status and repeatedly measured child television viewing time from early childhood to the school period. We analyzed data on 3,561 Dutch children from the Generation R Study, a population-based study in the Netherlands. Parent-reported television viewing time for children aged 2, 3, 4, 6 and 9 years were collected by questionnaire...

Concern about how much television alcohol advertising reaches underage youth and how the advertising influences their attitudes and decisions about alcohol use has been widespread for many years. Lacking in the policy debate has been solid, reliable information about the extent of youth exposure to television alcohol advertising. To address this critical gap, the Center on Alcohol Marketing and...

This is an examination of two kinds of conversations that parents and children sometimes have about television programs: first, conversations in which parents and children seek and/or exchange information about some aspect of reality portrayed or referred to on television; second, conversations in which family members discuss the appropriateness or inappropriateness of behavior shown or mention...

OBJECTIVE The goal was to examine the longitudinal associations of changes in television viewing and other sources of sedentary behavior with changes in leisure-time moderate/vigorous physical activity in adolescence. METHODS We studied a cohort of 6369 girls and 4487 boys who were 10 to 15 years of age in 1997. During each of 4 years of follow-up assessments, participants self-reported their...