Social TV is a rapidly growing area of research. Many people are already using Instant Messaging (IM) programs while they watch TV[1], chat options have been added to online video sites and soon there may be communication options for Media Centers or TV set-top boxes. This paper describes a research that looks into the different approaches in Social TV experiments currently being conducted with...

Television (TV) viewing is a risk factor for obesity in children. This is partly due to its promotion of energy intake by distracting from normal satiety signals. Children are exposed to a variety of TV programs which differ in features such as pacing. This is reason to believe that different children’s TV shows distract to varying degrees, and can therefore influence energy intake to different...

OBJECTIVES Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) has a low profile in urban sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics in many developed countries. The objective of this study was to determine the true prevalence of TV in an Australian urban sexual health setting using sensitive molecular diagnostic techniques. METHODS A cross-sectional study investigating the aetiology of cervicitis in women attendin...

Time-Varying Neural Networks(TV-NN) represent a powerful tool for nonstationary systems identification tasks, as shown in some recent works of the authors. Extreme Learning Machine approach can train TV-NNs efficiently: the reference algorithm is named ELM-TV and is of batch-learning type. In this paper, we generalize an online sequential version of ELM to TV-NN and evaluate its performances in...

With the TV channel explosion, many people face an exhausting task of having to find something to watch on TV that fits their interest. Despite the excessive increase of TV contents, there are few considerations in the development of novel methods for personalized smart TV content recommender services. In this paper, we define an application architecture of personalized TV content recommender s...

This paper focuses on the influence that Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) are expected to have on the business models and in particular the programming choice of TV stations and cable / satellite TV service providers. After presenting the theoretical underpinnings with respect to programming choice modeling for the TV industry, this work examines DVRs in detail covering their main product feature...

The aim of the current work was to evaluate the effect of preschoolers' television (TV) watching time on the prevalence of obesity even after controlling for their total energy intake and their physical activity status. A representative sample of 2,374 Greek children aged 1-5 years was examined ("Growth, Exercise and Nutrition Epidemiological Study in preSchoolers", GENESIS study). Children's T...

OBJECTIVE To compare food consumption during television (TV) viewing among adolescents who watched >2 h/d v. ≤2 h/d; and to examine the association between sociodemographic variables (age, gender and socio-economic status (SES)) and the consumption of energy-dense foods and drinks during TV viewing. DESIGN The data are part of the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence (HELEN...