Exploring Social Media Scenarios for the Television Noor F. Ali-Hasan Microsoft 1065 La Avenida Street Mountain View, CA 94043
[email protected] Abstract social media currently fits in participants‟ lives, gauge their The use of social technologies is becoming ubiquitous in the interest in potential social TV features, and understand lives of average computer users. However, social media has their concerns for such features. This paper discusses yet to infiltrate users‟ television experiences. This paper related research in combining TV and social technologies, presents the findings of an exploratory study examining presents the study‟s research methods, introduces the social scenarios for TV. Eleven participants took part in the participants and their defining characteristics, and three-part study that included in-home field visits, a diary summarizes the study‟s findings in terms of the study of participants‟ daily usage of TV and social media, participants‟ current TV and social media usage and their and participatory design sessions. During the participatory interest in social scenarios for the TV. design sessions, participants evaluated and discussed several paper wireframes of potential social TV applications. Overall, participants responded to most social TV concepts with excitement and enthusiasm, but were leery of scenarios Related Work that they felt violated their privacy. In recent years, a great deal of research has been conducted around the use of blogs and online social networks. Studies exploring social television applications have been Introduction fewer in number, likely due to the limited availability of Whether in the form of blogs or online social networks, such applications in consumers‟ homes.