Newstream

Abstract

News content extends well beyond the scope of a single medium: video, audio, text, interactive experiences, and social sharing all contribute to an individual's understanding and experience of content. While some content that exists across media can supplement other forms, such as an interactive feature accompanying a text-based article, other content might replicate information and therefore be redundant to a consumer. This paper introduces Newstream, a novel approach to navigating news-based content across a variety of media sources. Building off of prior work, neXtream, Newstream can craft specialized experiences that both facilitate common dialogs within social networks and allow users to dynamically move across various mediums, controlling levels of depth based on interest while avoiding repetition. Newstream integrates multiple devices and networks to maintain unified back-end knowledge about each user.

Cross-Device Taxonomy

“…Knowledge work (62) → Project management: task management [265], productivity [356], project management [13], ad-hoc sharing of resources [252], job scheduling [353] → Presenting: presentation software [379], proxemicaware presenter [205], multi-display environment [201] → Searching: search [283], finding information [90] → Browsing: cross-screen browsing [164] → Other examples: note-taking [246], scientific work [148], activity-aware computing [140], police analyst station [4] Games and Installations (31) → Museum experiences: museum activities and simulations [194], museum guide and artwork [93], spatial music experience [205] → Playing and dancing: interactive dance club and music creation [10], proxemic-aware pong [205], snake game [147], Where's Waldo game [156], tower defense game [147], multi-device AR game [332], VR storyboard creation [125] → Guides: city guide [291], tourist guide [119], conference guide [334], exploring neighborhood [178] → Businesses: retail [266], restaurant menu [80] Home Computing (61) → Creativity: drawing [278], photo sorting [218], comic strips and collage [24], scrapbook [236] → Media consumption: mixed-reality TV [9], TV access [208]<...>…”