Emotion sharing during live sports broadcasts: studying its potential and the users' preferences

In this paper, we present an experimental study to evaluate the users' preferences and the potential of sharing emotions during live sports broadcasts. First, we evaluate whether participants prefer to visualise emotions and opinions on the mobile device or on the television while using a second screen application, and then we assess the potential of sharing emotions to automatically create appealing content. Results show that users do not have a clear preference for any of the two emotion visualization methods, but revealed very positive insights regarding the use of shared emotions to create video highlights.