Google TV Research Articles

Accessing News in the Digital Era: The Case of Sarawak, Malaysia

news via mobile devices and digital platforms such as search engines and social media. The study examined whether such trends were escalating in the contexts where a large number of people continued to access news from traditional media sources such as TV, news, and print. A survey of 512 respondents living in Sarawak, Malaysia was conducted (33.8% rural, 10% suburban, and 56.2% urban). The results showed that the mobile gadgets most commonly used to access news are smartphones (49%) and 29.5% of respondents used both smartphones and laptop computers to read the news. The streaming device most frequently used to get news was Chromecast with Google TV. A majority of the respondents read online newspapers but they mostly read free news. Only 21.7% subscribed to online news portals. A comparison showed that online newspaper was gaining popularity over printed newspapers, and the use of live news streaming, news video, and podcast was on the rise. The study revealed that 19.3% did not use any gadgets to read the news, and they relied on traditional forms such as TV, printed newspapers, and radio. The most popular TV news channels for the Sarawakians were TV3 Media Prima and the newly established TV Sarawak. Among pay TV, Astro was popular. The study showed the appeal of mainstream news outlets to satisfy the news needs of Sarawakian viewers for updates on daily news, local news, and breaking news in the digital era.

CES 2022: Less is More

AbstractScaled‐down show still delivers top‐notch exhibits and innovation aplenty.

Hacking the House Chapter 2: The Boston VoIP doorbell

In the January 2016 issue of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, I confessed to my Chicago apartment misdeeds that led me to a life of noncriminal behavior of hacking the house. I also mentioned how my constant attempts to integrate more and more technology into our everyday living have challenged my wife's sanity. (I rationalize my behavior by telling her she is performing important beta testing as part of my permanent consumer focus group.) She is okay with the Wi-Fi Internet coverage inside the house but needs to bring me into the room to change the channel on the TV because I have implemented a gateway box with a cable QAM tuner to MPEG2 DLNA video over Internet Protocol (IP) via Wi-Fi to thin client wireless set-top boxes running a rendering app on a Google TV platform. She is just about getting comfortable with the home private automatic branch exchange (PABX) connecting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phones connected via a HomePNA (HPNA) network. I don't think she minds having to predial trunk access codes before each outgoing phone call because it means we have many more possible outside lines and are able to access the home phones via the public Internet while we are away from our home base. Even the X10 network has become a welcome resident because the stand-alone controller takes care of the lights, automatically adjusting for sunrise and sunset based on the month of the year.

AthenaTV: an authoring tool of educational applications for TV using android-based interface design patterns

Education has become a key component of any society since it is the means by which humanity functions and governs itself. It allows individuals to appropriately integrate into a given community. For this reason, new ways of interaction between students and educational contents are emerging in order to improve the quality of education. In this context, devices such as computers, smartphones, or electronic tablets represent new ways of accessing educational resources which do not limit students to their usage merely inside the classroom since these devices are available anywhere. Nowadays, television has become one of these technological tools able to support the teaching–learning process through documentary films or movies, among others. However, two main issues appear. First, some of these educational contents are not those needed by a professor since information is restricted, and second, the development of TV-based applications requires an integrative approach involving the support of several specialists in education who provide the guidelines needed to build high-quality contents, as well as application designers and developers who are able to deliver the educational applications demanded by students. This work presents a system called AthenaTV to generate android-based educational applications for TV. AthenaTV takes into account the 10-foot design scheme used by Google to develop interfaces based on interface design patterns established in Google TV, and it is based on the android development guidelines and HTML5 standard.

Designing an effective physical activity intervention using the Google TV–putting user input at the forefront

Introduction: Physical activity is critical to maintaining physical and mental health in postpartum women. However, up to one-year postpartum, 57% of women are sedentary. These women report they have less time for physical activity and spend more time indoors. Innovative physical activity videos delivered via an Internet connected television may be used to help Mothers overcome these key barriers and provide a realistic way for them to increase their physical activity. To create a technology driven intervention for a population that has specific needs and physical activity barriers, it is important to get the users’ (Mothers’) input.

The teardown: the Logitech Revue set-top box for Google TV

This paper presents the Logitech Revue which is recently arrives in the market for Web connected set-top boxes (STB) and one of two hardware Implementations to date of Google TV, an STB environment based on a variant of the search company's Android smartphone OS. Not yet officially available In the UK, Logitech has said that it does see the country as a potentially key market because of high consumption of Internet video (e.g. BBC mayor, Channel 4's4oD). The Revue can also download and run apps purchased from the Android store and is in-the-field upgradeable.

Measuring Advertising Quality on Television

ABSTRACT This article introduces a measure of television ad quality based on audience retention using logistic regression techniques to normalize such scores against expected audience behavior. By adjusting for features such as time of day, network, recent user behavior, and household demographics, we are able to isolate ad quality from these extraneous factors. We introduce the model used in the current Google TV Ads product and two new competing models that show some improvement. We also devise metrics for calculating a model9s predictive power and variance, allowing us to determine which of our models performs best. We conclude with discussions of retention score applications for advertisers to evaluate their ad strategies and as a potential aid in future ad pricing.