Publication
Swoozy - An Innovative Design of a Distributed and Gesture-based Semantic Television System
Matthieu Deru; Simon Bergweiler
In: Eighth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2014). International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM), 8th, located at located at NexTech 2014, August 24-28, Rome, Italy, Pages 131-139, UBICOMM, ISBN 978-1-61208-353-7, IARIA, 8/2014.
Abstract
In this article, we describe an innovative approach to an
intelligent television system named Swoozy that enables viewers
to discover extended information such as facts, images, shopping
recommendations or video clips about the currently broadcasted
TV program by using the power of technologies of the Semantic
Web (Web 3.0). Via a gesture-based user interface viewers will
get answers to questions they may ask themselves during a
movie or TV report directly on their television. In most cases,
these questions are related to the name and vita of the featured
actor, the place where a scene was filmed, or purchasable books
and items about the topic of the report the viewer is watching.
Furthermore, a new interaction concept for TVs is proposed using
semantic annotations called “Grabbables” that are displayed on
top of the videos and that provide a semantic referencing between
the videos’ content and an ontological representation to access
Semantic Web Services.