This work-in-progress paper previews how we can design interfaces
and interactions for multi-view TVs, enabling users
to transition between independent and shared activities, gain
casual awareness of others’ activities, and collaborate more
effectively. We first compare an Android-based multi-user
TV against both multi-screen and multi-view TVs in a collaborative
movie browsing task, to determine whether multiview
can improve collaboration, and what level of awareness
of each other’s activity users choose. Based on our findings,
we iterate on our multi-view design in a second study, giving
users the ability to transition between casual and focused
modes of engagement, and dynamically set their engagement
with other users’ activities. This research demonstrates that
the shared focal point of the TV now has the capability to
facilitate both collaborative and completely independent activity
