A Context-Aware Smart TV System with Body-Gesture Control and Personalized Recommendation

Smart TV enables viewers to conveniently access different multimedia content and interactive services in a single platform. This chapter addresses three important issues to enhance the performance of smart TV. The first is to design a body control system that recognizes and interprets human gestures as machine commands to control TV. The second is to develop a new social tag-based method to recommend most suitable multimedia content to users. Finally, a context-aware platform is implemented that takes into account different environmental situations in order to make the best recommendations.