Social Watching of Sports

Using latent social activity for efficient sports viewing

How can we mine social media to capture the excitement of live sports viewing? It turns out that people tweet while they watch sports, and just looking at the 'hotspots' of activity tells us when something interesting happened!
How can we mine social media to capture the excitement of live sports viewing? It turns out that people tweet while they watch sports, and just looking at the 'hotspots' of activity tells us when something interesting happened!

People tweet while watching sports. Some of this tweeting is of excitement, some of it is disappointment, and some of it is latent background information. In this work, we explore whether these tweets cn be leveraged to create video highlight reels of a sports match (Tang & Boring, 2012). The short answer: yes. The longer answer: mostly yes, if you don’t mind getting a few false positives.

Publications

  1. Anthony Tang and Sebastian Boring. (2012). #EpicPlay: crowd-sourcing sports video highlights. In CHI ’12: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, 1569–1572. (conference).
    Acceptance: 23.4% - 369/1577.