Understanding potential determinants of change in television (TV) viewing among children may enhance the effectiveness of programs targeting this behaviour. This study aimed to investigate the contribution of individual, social and home environment factors among 10-year-old Australian children to change in TV viewing over a 21-month period. A total of 164 children (49% boys) completed a 19-less...

The TV-Anytime standard describes structures of categories of digital TV program metadata, as well as User Profile metadata for TV programs. In this case study we describe a natural language model and a system for the users to interact with the metadata and preview TV programs stored in remote databases, from their mobile devices contrary to their limited configurations. By the use of the TV-An...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of a reality TV cosmetic surgery program on eating disordered attitudes, behaviors, mood, anxiety, and self-esteem. METHOD Participants (N=147 women) completed baseline surveys and were subsequently randomly assigned to one of two conditions: one in which they watched a reality TV cosmetic surgery program (The Swan) and one in which they watched a reality TV ...

It is no easy thing to insert viewer participation seamlessly within a narrative structure when planning interactive TV program, and moreover there are not any existing processes to solve such difficulty in practice. Thus, in this paper, we proposed a new design process to be suitable to map out viewer participation of interactive TV program and demonstrated the application of our design proces...

There is a great need for more TV programs to be closed-captioned to help hearing impaired and elderly people watch TV. For that purpose, automatic speech recognition is expected to contribute to providing text from speech in real-time. NHK has been using speech recognition for closed-captioning of some of its news, sports and other live TV programs. In news programs, automatic speech recogniti...

Internet technology should eventually provide important improvements over established media not only in the efficiency of broadband delivery, and of particular importance, in the efficiency of business models that can be used to collect money for that programming. I identify five economic characteristics of Internet technology that should lead to these greater efficiencies: (1) lower delivery c...

Time-use diaries were collected over a 3-year period for 2 cohorts of 2- and 4-year-old children. TV viewing declined with age. Time spent in reading and educational activities increased with age on weekdays but declined on weekends. Time-use patterns were sex-stereotyped, and sex differences increased with age. As individuals' time in educational activities, social interaction, and video games...

This paper presents the recommendation techniques applied in Personal Program Guide (PPG), a system generating personalized Electronic Program Guides for digital TV. The PPG recommends TV programs by relying on the integration of heterogeneous user modeling techniques. Copyright Springer Verlag. This paper is going to appear in the Proceedings of the 8th AI*IA Conference, Pisa, 2003, published ...

Translation validation (TV) is the process of proving that the execution of a translator has generated an output that is a correct translation of the input. When applied to optimizing compilers, TV is used to prove that the generated target code is a correct translation of the source program being compiled. This is in contrast to verifying a compiler, i.e. ensuring that the compiler will genera...