How do people really interact with TV?: Naturalistic observations of digital TV and digital video recorder users

Computers in Entertainment

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Darnell, Michael J ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital TV; Digital video recorder; Ethnographic studies; People interacting with DVRs; People interacting with TV

Indexed keywords

MARKETING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VIDEO RECORDING;

ADVERTISEMENTS; DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDERS; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES;

DIGITAL TELEVISION;

EID: 34548240778     PISSN: 15443574     EISSN: 15443981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1279540.1279550     Document Type: Article

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