MUSST 2013 - Workshop on Multi-User Services for Social TV

Social TV has been an active area of research for more than a decade now, but most research has focused on interaction between remote participants, either through direct communication or more indirect e.g. in the form of social recommendations. However, an issue that has been mostly neglected in social TV research is how to deal with multiple co-located users in the home.
This workshop, to be held on Monday 24 June 2013 at EuroITV2013 (24-26 June) in Como (Italy), wants to address this gap by investigating possible social TV services for multiple users in the home. The objective of this full-day workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different aspects of multi-user services for social television including multiple devices: user research, prototype design, technical implementation, system scalability, business models, etc. Papers are solicited addressing the workshop topics mentioned below.
The workshop will aim at stimulating lively discussions according to the paper topics, as well as providing a creative design exercise as a hands-on approach to actively provide solutions for the topics discussed.
Submission details
We invite workshop papers of 4-6 pages in ACM Extended Abstract format on the following topics:
Social TV applications supporting multiple co-located users
Multi-user interaction with the TV using the remote control, second-screen devices, gestures or voice control
Personalization and recommendation for multi-user households and groups
Identification of multiple users in the living room (e.g. with voice or face recognition)
System scalability for offering multi-user services to a large audience
Division of these services between end devices and the cloud
Submissions should be sent in pdf-format to david.geerts-AT-soc.kuleuven.be.
We will invite the authors of the best papers of the workshop to extend their paper and submit it to a special section in the Elsevier Entertainment Computing Journal.