2 research outputs found
To Binge or not To Binge: viewers’ moods and behaviors during the consumption of subscribed video streaming
The popularity of internet-distributed TV entertainment services, such
as Netflix, has transformed TV consumption behavior. Currently, the level of
control viewers have over their TV experiences, along with the release of com plete seasons at once, are some of the factors that stimulate the so-called binge watching phenomenon (the consumption of several episodes of a program in a
single sitting). Most of binge-watching studies have focused on viewers’ habits
and health effects. This paper presents a study that relates to viewers’ behaviors
and moods. It was carried out with 13 young participants at their home, watching
online content, collecting physiological, inertial, and self-reported data. We iden tify and compare binge-watching with non-binge-watching behaviors. Our results
suggest that while viewers recur to online serial entertainment in pursuit of lei sure related needs, such as relaxation, relief from boredom and escapism, the act
of binge-watching tends to make them feel rather unsatisfied with no change in
Arousal. Nevertheless, in binge-watching the Positive Affect increases while the
Negative decreases. Moreover, watching a single episode only, tends to result in
increased arousal and but not necessarily in increased satisfaction. This prelimi nary finding can be the starting point of fruitful future investigations on unpack ing further motives and nuances from this outcome.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
The Importance of Context When Recommending TV Content: Dataset and Algorithms
Home entertainment systems feature in a variety of usage scenarios with one
or more simultaneous users, for whom the complexity of choosing media to
consume has increased rapidly over the last decade. Users' decision processes
are complex and highly influenced by contextual settings, but data supporting
the development and evaluation of context-aware recommender systems are scarce.
In this paper we present a dataset of self-reported TV consumption enriched
with contextual information of viewing situations. We show how choice of genre
associates with, among others, the number of present users and users' attention
levels. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance of predicting chosen genres
given different configurations of contextual information, and compare the
results to contextless predictions. The results suggest that including
contextual features in the prediction cause notable improvements, and both
temporal and social context show significant contributions