The document discusses the need for mobile apps to enhance the experience of attendees at large events like film festivals. It describes an app created for the Thessaloniki International Film Festival that provides an event program, personalized scheduling, search capabilities, social sharing features like ratings and comments, a map of venues, and a dashboard with analytics. The app aims to make navigating the large multi-venue event easier and allow social interaction between attendees. Future plans include deeper social media integration and advanced recommendation, navigation and ticketing features.

1. ThessFest & TEDxThess
Apps for Enhancing Event Experience
Symeon Papadopoulos, Juxhin Bakalli, Yiannis Kompatsiaris
Living Lab Event: Mobile Apps for Use in the City
Sofia, 26-27 January 2013

2. Why do we need an app for that?
• Events are large
More than 250 screenings in TIFF53
Parallel events (parties, concerts, etc.)
Different venues
• Events are social
100,000 visitors in 10 days for TIFF
People want to interact
People use social media to communicate

3. Features at a Glance
• Event Program
• Personalized Program
• Search
• Rating & Sharing
• Feed
• Map
• Dashboard

4. Event Program

5. Personalized Program

6. Search
• Search for multiple
entities
– Movie
– Director
– Screening
– Venue
• No need for internet
connection
• Partial matching
supported

7. Rating & Sharing
• Twitter support with hashtag
and title automatically
included in the tweet
• Rating and commenting
system
• Aggregation of ratings
• “Tweet my Rating” with
hashtag, rating starts, film
URL and title auto-completed
• Email sharing

8. Feed
• General Twitter feed based
on pre-selected hashtags
• Specific Twitter feed per film
– includes ratings and comments
made by the app
– based on film title

9. Map
• Jump to venue from the film
screen
• Find out other films in the
same venue
• Get directions (foot/car) to
the venue from current
location

10. Dashboard
Overview of the event
• Top films:
– most bookmarks
– best ratings
• Most active twitterers
• Most retweeted photos
• Geotagged tweets
http://thessfest.socialsensor.eu/app/

11. Usage

12. Usage

13. User comments

14. Press coverage

15. Future Plans
App
• Integration with Facebook
• Film recommendation
• 3D navigation in event location
• Ticket availability
Dashboard
• Timeline view of activity
• Sentiment analysis of tweets
• Topic detection

16. Acknowledgements
www.socialsensor.eu

17. Discussion / Demo