CELL: Connecting Everyday Life in an archipeLago

TL;DR

This paper presents the design of CELL, an interactive TV platform aimed at connecting remote secondary schools to support social communication and maintain community balance in diverse geographic areas.

Contribution

It introduces a novel physical and conceptual design for a social interactive TV system tailored for distributed secondary education communities.

Findings

Design of a physical interactive TV platform

Conceptual model for social communication

Prototype deployment in educational settings

Abstract

We explore the design of a seamless broadcast communication system that brings together the distributed community of remote secondary education schools. In contrast to higher education, primary and secondary education establishments should remain distributed, in order to maintain a balance of urban and rural life in the developing and the developed world. We plan to deploy an ambient and social interactive TV platform (physical installation, authoring tools, interactive content) that supports social communication in a positive way. In particular, we present the physical design and the conceptual model of the system.