Paper Info
Title
Inhabited television: broadcasting interaction from within collaborative virtual environments
Abstract
Inhabited television combines collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) with broadcast television so that on-line audiences can participate in television shows within shared virtual worlds. We describe a series of experiments with inhabited television, beginning with the NOWninety6 poetry performance, The Mirror, and Heaven & Hell—Live. These early experiments raised fundamental questions for inhabited television concerning the extent to which it is possible to establish fast-paced social interaction within a CVE, and to which it is possible to produce a coherent and engaging broadcast of this action. We then present a fourth more recent experiment, Out of This World, that directly addressed these questions. We describe how the formulation of inhabited television design principles, combined with the use of dedicated production software for scripting and directing a show and for controlling virtual cameras, enabled us to create a fast-moving and more coherent experience.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1145/365058.365095
ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.
Keywords
Field
DocType
broadcast television,engaging broadcast,computer-supported cooperative work,broadcasting interaction,dedicated production software,social interaction,entertainment,virtual world,television design principle,collaborative virtual environment,virtual camera,coherent experience,media spaces,nowninety6 poetry performance,early experiment,virtual worlds,computer supported cooperative work
Broadcasting,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
7
4
25
PageRank 
References 
Authors
3.68
16
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Steve Benford15886696.64
Chris Greenhalgh22764339.22
Michael P. Craven3588.62
Graham Walker48715.65
Tim Regan551936.33
Jason Morphett67911.88
John Wyver713720.30