Responsive Television
V. Michael Bove, Jr. and Stefan Agamanolis
MIT Media Laboratory
Proc. 2000 International Broadcasting Convention
Responsive Television consists of a stream of media objects and
procedural metadata that describes responses to viewer actions,
identity, context, and equipment. Such a system enables providing
personalized or responsive content even given a broadcast or multicast
environment, and doesn't require potentially sensitive information
about the viewer to be transmitted back to the source. A barrier to
such development has been the difficulty of authoring the associated
metadata. We are developing a programming-by-example editing tool
that allows the user to specify a few examples of variations
associated with variables known to the display; the system then can
generate generalized rules and embody them in software that
accompanies the media objects.