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Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience pp 327–348Cite as

From One to Many Boxes: Mobile Devices as Primary and Secondary Screens

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This chapter looks at the current changing habits on audiovisual content consumption at home, with special focus on potential uses of mobile devices. Standard television plus a remote control impose a use that is too coarse to support the various personal needs of people, while mobile devices open new possibilities from engagement and immersion into content and deliberately controlled disengagement with others to providing a screen that can be offered to include others in sharing experiences in a huddled setting.

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Cesar, P., Knoche, H., Bulterman, D.C.A. (2010). From One to Many Boxes: Mobile Devices as Primary and Secondary Screens. In: Marcus, A., Roibás, A., Sala, R. (eds) Mobile TV: Customizing Content and Experience. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-701-1_22

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