Fallahkhair, Sanaz

Lopes, R.

Pemberton, Lyn

English

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Workshop Proposal for ICEC 2013 
The new ecology of entertainment devices: first, second 
and multiple screens in the home setting. 
 
Lyn Pemberton1,  Roseli de Deus Lopes2 and Sanaz Fallahkhair3 
1 University of Brighton, School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, 
Lewes Rd, Brighton, UK 
LP22@bton.ac.uk 
2 PSI-EPUSP, Sao Paulo, Brazil 
roseli@lsi.usp.br 
3 University of Portsmouth, , School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, 
Lewes Rd, Brighton BN2 4GJ, East Sussex, UK 
sanaz.fallahkhair@port.ac.uk 
 
 
Keywords: Digital television, Second screen, Companion program, Interactive 
television, Remote control, Handset 
 
1 Workshop Topics 
 
The development of digital television, the ubiquity of mobile phones and most 
recently the spread of digital tablets have together led to users engaging with 
combinations of devices that were only vaguely perceived a few years ago. 
Sometimes we will be doing quite different things on each device: we browse, text, 
Tweet and Skype while consuming TV or use the TV for background as we play a 
game on a laptop. Sometimes our activities are more tightly connected: we tweet 
about a TV programme, or look up a TV news programme to follow up a friend’s 
text. Most recently, a new genre of system has been developed to provide a user 
experience even more closely “tethered” to the broadcast TV programme, with 
companion applications supporting shows via play-along quizzes, games and 
educational activities, often in synchronous mode.  
 
These new developments in juggling with multiple devices prompt on the one hand 
fascinating questions for observers of user behaviour and on the other challenges for 
designers of these experiences. In this workshop we aim to bring together researchers 
interested in cognitive, social and cultural aspects of multi-device user experience and 
designers and developers of second screen experiences, in a mutually informative 
conversation.  
 
The range of topics of interest to the workshop includes, but is nor restricted to: 
 
• Cognitive issues in interacting with multiple screens: usability, perception, 
attention, accessibility 
• Sociability and second screens, including social networking activity 
• Observational user studies in homes and on the move 
• Casual use of handheld devices in the TV context: the lessons for second 
screen design 
• Personal devices as remote controls 
• The design space for potential companion and second screen experiences 
• Second screens in different application areas: games, entertainment, news, 
documentary, edutainment 
• Standards, guidelines and patterns for second screens 
• Production routes and authoring methods for multi-screen applications 
• Examples of second screen deployment, successful or not 
• Design guidelines for companion applications 
2 Process 
The workshop will be publicised via a web site and announcements on a wide range 
of fora, with a call for papers for presentation at the workshop. The morning of the 
workshop will be devoted to presentations, with the afternoon session given over to 
small group and whole group creative discussions. The emphasis will be on 
exchanging information and experiences, creating productive links to support future 
collaborations. The purpose of workshop is basically twofold. On the one hand we 
aim to provide a knowledge exchange opportunity for participants, in the form of 
short presentations of papers, which we will seek to publish in a relevant journal, 
together with an introduction detailing the workshop process and its other outputs. We 
also aim to create a relatively informal setting where participants have the opportunity 
to work actively together in an atmosphere that fosters the creative thinking. In order 
to encourage this, the output of the workshop will be a set of scenarios to capture the 
discussion and point to potential future systems. The scenarios will ideally be 
presented via a poster in the conference poster session.  
3 Organisers 
The three organisers have many years’ experience in the field of interactive television 
and of interactive technologies more broadly and are all experienced in conference 
and workshop organisation.  
 
Dr Lyn Pemberton is Reader in Human Computer Interaction at the University of 
Brighton, where she is head of the Computing Division. One of the founders of the 
well-established EuroITV Conference, she has been involved in research on user-
related aspects of interactive television for more than ten years, mostly concentrating 
on edutainment, learning technologies, cross-platform interaction design, usability 
evaluation and recommender systems for iTV. She has designed and managed a 
number of projects funded by national and European agencies including JISC, the  
(UK) Technology Strategy Board and EU Lifelong Learning projects, focussing on 
mobile and cross-platform development for language learning and cultural heritage. 
Most recently she has worked on the technology acceptance aspects of novel 
technologies. 
 
Dr Sanaz Fallahkhair is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader MSc Information 
Systems at the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK. Her research 
interests are in the areas of human-centred design of new technologies that 
incorporate studies of user experiences, cognition and collaboration in designing 
novel interactive systems delivered via multiple platform: PC, mobile and Interactive 
Television. She is particularly interested in the applications of mobile and ubiquitous 
systems in education and healthcare domains. Currently she is a member of HCI and 
Pervasive Computing Research Group at the University of Portsmouth, and an 
Honorary Visiting Research fellow of the Interactive Technologies Research Group at 
the University of Brighton. She has worked on a range of research projects funded by 
EU, JISC and UK Department of Health, such as the FP6-EU and JISC funded 
projects, including TAMALLE (Television and Mobile phone Assisted Language 
Learning Environment), LOGOS (Knowledge on-demand for Ubiquitous learning) 
and CloudBank (Mobile Knowledge Sharing for Advanced Language Learners). She 
has written widely on the subject of user centred design and development of mobile, 
ubiquitous and cross platform applications.  
 
Dr Roseli de Deus Lopes is Associate Professor in the Electronic Systems 
Engineering Department, Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo (EP-USP). 
She received her undergraduate, master, doctorate and post-doctorate degrees in 
Electrical Engineering from EP-USP. She is the vice-chair of the Instrumentation 
Center of Interactive Technologies (CITI-USP) and is a principal investigator at 
Laboratório de Sistemas Integráveis (LSI-EP-USP), where she coordinates research 
projects in Interactive Electronic Media (which includes research in computer 
graphics, digital image processing, HCI, virtual reality and augmented reality) with 
emphasis on applications related to Education and Health. She also coordinates 
scientific dissemination initiatives and projects aimed at identifying and developing 
talents in Science and Engineering. Since 2003, she acts as the general coordinator of 
FEBRACE (Brazilian Fair of Science and Engineering), the biggest national pre-
college S&E fair in Brazil. She is the current academic coordinator of the “USP and 
Careers” program. She is a member of the Ministry of Education Working Group of 
the program of One Computer per Student (UCA - um computador por aluno). She 
was vice-chair (2006-2008) and director (2008-2009) of Estação Ciência, a Center for 
Scientific, Technological and Cultural Dissemination of USP, and currently is a 
member of the deliberative council of the USP Science Museum. 
An international programme committee will be set up if the workshop proposal is 
accepted.  
 
 
 


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