Presentation of the WeonTV project at the Euro ITV 2009 in Leuven - Juin 2009. A Social TV project from Aveiro University with a partnership with Portugal Telecom. Our thanks to the other SocialiTV research fellows:Pedro L. Almeida, Jorge Teixeira, Artur Melo & Frederico Cerdeira.  Also thanks to the PT In and labs.sapo/UA teams.

1. Implementation of Social Features Over Regular IPTV STB Ricardo Pinto / Vanessa Nobre University of Aveiro & PT [ jfa / almeida / ricardopinto / vnobre ]@ua.pt Jorge F. Abreu / Pedro Almeida University of Aveiro

3. James Lull Chuah Kharif Coates Boertjes Harrison HeB Harboe Metcalf Coppens Tullio Oehlberg Cesar Geerts Baillie Weisz Chorianopolous Social-iTV already a large cloud … and many others Lekakos

4. James Lull Chuah Kharif Coates Boertjes Harrison HeB Harboe Metcalf Coppens Tullio Oehlberg Cesar Geerts Baillie Weisz Chorianopolous sociability shared experiences participation buddies communication text voice networked TV community building distributed viewing content awareness Social-iTV already a large cloud … and many others Lekakos

5. Hardware & Middleware for providing social features in IPTV commercial platforms? (one of the commercial solutions) Microsoft MediaRoom regular IPTV STB

6. Mediaroom worldwide 3 millions

7. Mediaroom worldwide >300.000 users

8. challenge! how to put social features in meo households ?

11. system model

12. tv mode (v1)

13. chat mode (v1)

17. version 2 (in development)

18. version 2 (in development)

19. final notes the commercial set-top box has some technical limitations a great challenge to put it to work – mashups et al a social application in every household? preliminary results show good acceptance large field trial late 2009

20. http://labs.sapo.pt/ua/socialitv/ Jorge F. Abreu | [email_address] | twitter: jotafa Pedro Almeida | [email_address] | twitter: morganpt Ricardo Pinto | [email_address] Vanessa Nobre | [email_address] we will be around with the simulator