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Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for enabling a collective emotional experience among a plurality of separately located media viewers. The system incorporates an interactive broadcast media controller operative to transmit a first portion of media content to a plurality of local media devices; dynamically receive a plurality of emotional response data from a plurality of local emotional response collectors; dynamically integrate audience sounds into a subsequent portion of the common media content and transmit the subsequent portion of the common media content to the plurality of local media devices. The plurality of local emotional response collectors are associated with the plurality of separately located users and operative to detect emotional responses elicited by the associated users and dynamically transmit emotional response data representations of the detected emotional responses to the interactive broadcast media controller. The plurality of local media devices are likewise associated with the plurality of separately located users and at least operative to receive the subsequent portion of the common media content from the interactive broadcast media controller and at least output the subsequent portion of the received media content to the plurality of separately located users in apparent synchronicity with their elicited emotional responses.

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