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Mei Chuah (2002).
Reality Instant Messenger: The Promise of iTV Delivered Today.
Proceedings of the AHÂ’2002 Workshop on Personalization in Future TV pp..
http://www.di.unito.it/~liliana/TV02/completeProceedings.pdf
Abstract
It is 2002, and still the promise of interactive TV (iTV) has not arrived. But perhaps it has; we just have not recognized it. Instant messaging (IM) services have 130 million users [5] currently, and that number is expected to quadruple in the next few years. However our current instant messaging infrastructure is reality unaware (it is not aware of real time events or activities within the physical world). We believe that by making that infrastructure "reality conscious" (syncing it to real-time and current events) we will be able to stimulate new services and new opportunities for commerce. One interesting opportunity is to deliver interactive TV services through the instant messaginging frastructure. For example, by tying instant messaging to live sports events, we can chat with our friends and compete against them for points and prizes even though they may be physically distant. By melding instant messaging with our physical world, we enable many interactive TV services to be delivered today, through a simple, mobile, freely available platform that already has 130 million users.
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