Assessment of end-user response to sports highlights extraction for personal video recorders

Abstract

We tested our previously reported sports highlights playback for personal video recorders with a carefully chosen set of sports aficionados. Each subject spent about an hour with the content, going through the same basic steps of introduction, trying out the system, and follow up questionnaire. The main conclusion was that the users unanimously liked the functionality very much even when it made mistakes. Furthermore, the users felt that if the user interface were made much more responsive so as to quickly compensate for false alarms and misses, the functionality would be vastly enhanced. The ability to choose summaries of any desired lenght turned out to be the main attraction. SPIE, January 2007This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part without payment of fee is granted for nonprofit educational and research purposes provided that all such whole or partial copies include the following: a notice that such copying is by permission of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.; an acknowledgment of the authors and individual contributions to the work; and all applicable portions of the copyright notice. Copying, reproduction, or republishing for any other purpose shall require a license with payment of fee to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. ABSTRACTWe tested our previously reported sports highlights playback for personal video recorders with a carefully chosen set of sports aficionados. Each subject spent about an hour with the content, going through the same basic steps of introduction, trying out the system, and follow up questionnaire. The main conclusion was that the users unanimously liked the functionality very much even when it made mistakes. Furthermore, the users felt that if the user interface were made much more responsive so as to quickly compensate for false alarms and misses, the functionality would be vastly enhanced. The ability to choose summaries of any desired length turned out to be the main attraction.