Work-in-Progress Track Chairs' Welcome

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Work-in-Progress (WiP) track of the 2017 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video (TVX 2017). This year's WiP track continues its tradition of previous TVX conferences in soliciting recent viewpoints, new discoveries, and early-stage design and development in disciplines that are in line with TVX's areas of interest. It provides a unique opportunity for exchanging brave new ideas, receiving feedback and fostering collaborations. To further promote the dissemination of new ideas and early-stage project results, several new initiatives are introduced for the WiP track this year. We offer a Project-in-Progress special track, targeting contributions from ongoing major research initiatives including European Commission-funded or other similar-scale projects for cross-project discussions. Additionally, the WiP authors have the opportunity to present their work as a short pitch presentation at the "Madness session" in the main conference program in addition to physical posters at the conference, and importantly, have the papers included in conference adjunct proceedings indexed in ACM Digital Library. We received a total number of 17 high quality submissions (including 14 on the standard track and 3 on the Project-in-Progress track) from Europe, America and Asia across many topic areas including alternate realities, art, content production, interaction design, immersive media and media studies. Three submissions participated in the Mentoring Program for feedback and guidance from experienced researchers. Based on reviews from Associate Chairs and other expert reviewers in the field, 10 submissions have been accepted. We also selected one winner of the WiP Best Paper Award. We would like to thank the authors for providing the initial submissions and then working to prepare their camera-ready papers. We are grateful to the TVX 2017 conference Chairs and Committee members for tremendous support and behind the scenes work to prepare this track. We also would like to thank experienced researchers, who participated in the Mentoring Programme for providing invaluable guidance to the authors. We express our deep appreciation for the reviewers, who worked incredibly hard in providing feedback for authors. We hope that the WiP track will provide you with a valuable opportunity to exchange ideas with other researchers, developers, designers and artists around the world

Work in progress: a novel method of creating an academic content repository

This paper outlines a project aimed at addressing the issue of the scalability of online academic support. This project is being run during the Autumn semester at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Toowoomba Australia, in conjunction with the Australian Digital Futures Institute. The study attached to the project will use Design-Based Research to evaluate the effectiveness of a simple, but innovative academic content and metadata creation tool referred to as Academic Assist. Academic Assist has been recently developed at USQ as a plug-in block for the moodle-based Learning Management System employed at USQ for its several hundred online subjects. The pilot project and associated study now extends over nine subjects, including three consecutive subjects in computer engineering; and covers faculties of Engineering, Education, Business, Science and Arts. Some preliminary results are presented here. Complete results of the study including acceptance surveys, expert reviews and usage statistics will be presented at FIE 2009

DeWitt Wallace Library Biennial Report 2007-2009

This report summarizes the activities in the DeWitt Wallace Library for the years 2007-09. This report is a collaborative effort by the entire staff and features highlights including new services, new people, new collections, new spaces, new technologies, and celebrations

A Guide to Actionable Measurement

Outlines the foundation's common principles, approaches, and taxonomies for measuring outcomes in its Global Health, Global Development, and United States program areas at the strategy, initiative, and grant levels. Includes best practices to aspire to

My boy builds coffins. Future memories of your loved ones

The research is focus on the concept of storytelling associated with product design, trying to investigate new ways of designing and a possible future scenario related to the concept of death. MY BOY BUILDS COFFINS is a gravestone made using a combination of cremation’s ashes and resin. It is composed by a series of holes in which the user can stitch a text, in order to remember the loved one. The stitching need of a particular yarn produced in Switzerland using some parts of human body. Project also provides another version which uses LED lights instead of the yarn. The LEDs - thanks to an inductive coupling - will light when It will be posed in the hole. The gravestone can be placed where you want, as if it would create a little altar staff at home. In this way, there is a real connection between the user and the dearly departed

Developing research degrees online

Research degrees have been changing radically in the last twenty years, with an extensive body of work accumulated on improving the practice of research degrees and on developing skills for independent researchers. However, most of this work focuses on full-time residential research degrees, and little attention has been paid to part-time research degrees at a distance. This paper presents a novel research degree, the Virtual MPhil in Computing, offered by The Open University (UK), supported by a blend of technologies, and designed to address this gap. We discuss the support it provides for the development of student community, research dialogue and progress monitoring of distance research students