Year: 2010
Type: dissertation
Abstract: People invite friends to their home to watch their favorite movie. They gather around a\nTV and watch the movie while having a conversation. Watching movie and television\ntogether is a common social activity, but web video does not support this synchronous\nwatching and conversations. Nowadays videos are watched alone without co-presence\nand social interactions are confined to asynchronous comment threads left by family\nand friends. Social networking services and internet applications are trying hard to\nmake it easier for individuals to communicate when they are apart from each other.\nThese services and facilities remove geographical distances between people since they\nare able to talk and see each other at any moment. Different applications have variety of\nservices to keep people updated about their friends by different kinds of media. In the\nera of multimedia communication a rich interactive application which simulates a living\nroom in cyberspace can make the communication much easier and interesting. In this\nthesis we build a service which simulates a virtual living room in the cyberspace. In this\nservice people will be able to plan and watch a movie in someone’s virtual living room.\nThey will also be able to talk, share and interact using different communications media\nsuch as text, voice or video. This application is implemented to be used in state of art\nweb browser without downloading any additional plug-in, except a flash viewer, which\nis widely available in most of the computer and devices.
Author: Aily Raesi
Language: English
Subfield: Media Technology
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W45123509