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Principles of entertainment in inhabited television

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Inhabited TV paradigms have been around since a while and several experimental implementations have been delivered around the world. The basic model of these experiments involves the deployment of collaborative virtual environments so that users can take part in TV shows from within these virtual, shared environments. Unfortunately, this approach although cheap and easily implemen-table, doesn't add up too much to engagement, pace gap between real/virtual world, camera control techniques and most important, adequate TV Formats.
The talk presents a new paradigm of basic principles for entertaining a virtually deployed audience allowing for itneraction and maintaining the entertainment sensation.

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AVI '08: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
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  2. social design
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