Integrating Internet Protocol Television and Social Networking

Abstract

We know that the elderly comprise the highest proportion of television viewers. In the past we have witnessed elderly people struggling with the new technologies and outright rejecting technologies as a result of its complexity. We propose a system to help people keep up with new technologies, such as IPTV and social networks with reduced efforts. We specifically propose a system to integrate IPTV to social networking website with an aid of mobile phone. This system uses speech to text technology as input to reduce the difficulty involved in interaction while viewing television. As speech is more convenient and natural way of expression than text, we anticipate that people in other age groups can also benefit from the system.