Enhancing Video Viewing Experience

Abstract

In this study, the authors have considered video viewing style to be a type of knowledge medium. Video viewing styles, which are considered to be habitual behaviors during video viewing, are used to externalize one’s viewing skills or know-how about video viewing; they allow users to experience videos through these skills. In order to allow users to experience videos in various viewing styles, the authors have developed a system called the video viewing experience reproducer (VVER), which determines the user’s viewing styles and reuses them. To determine these styles, the system extracts associations between the user’s manipulation of videos and the low-level features of these videos. In this chapter, the authors describe the notion of reusing the video viewing styles and composing them. After discussing examples of utilizing this concept, preliminary user studies have been reported.