Merging Augmented Reality with Television Shows to Enhance the Viewer Experience

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Simão Pedro Nogueira
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/108740
• topic: Augmented reality; elevision; social; interaction; mobile devices; entertainment; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

Nowadays, television no longer has the same effect on viewers as it had decades ago. The “traditional” television has been losing audience over the years in favor of new technologies. The time that was formerly spent watching televi-sion, was replaced by smartphones and tablets, where the viewer has the oppor-tunity to interact with the content that is provided to him, receiving stimuli that television cannot offer on its own. More and more people are looking for new ways to socialize and interact outside the space they are confined to, in order to discuss certain topics and watch videos, or images published by others. This makes the concept of watching television, just for the pleasure of watching, an old-fashioned concept that needs to be adapted to the modern times. This thesis aims to introduce innovative concepts of interactivity in television contexts, and to achieve it, we will explore the possibility of integrating augmented reality (AR) concepts with television shows to enhance the viewer experience. By using AR, we can view objects and information that otherwise would not be possible, simply because they do not exist in our reality or the original movie. This technology is earning an important role in our day-to-day activities, namely in the entertain-ment area. Our goal is to allow viewers to watch and interact with TV shows through a mobile device and use AR elements to present important information and amusing effects by overlaying the video content. With this approach, we hope to introduce a new way of interacting with TV shows so that we can meet the expectations of a new generation of audiences. Taking into account the results we had, this concept can be considered a success and can possibly be one of the next steps in TV show user interaction.