Automatically determining and presenting participants' reactions to live streaming videos

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:

• identify a publisher of a live streaming video of an event taking place at a location;
• identify one or more co-located participants associated with the live streaming video, wherein the one or more co-located participants are located within a threshold distance of each other and the publisher, the one or more co-located participants and the publisher being different;
• continuously monitor behavior of each of the one or more participants, wherein the monitoring comprises continuously monitoring sensor data associated with the one or more participants;
• automatically determine respective reactions of each of the one or more participants based on the monitoring the behavior;
• and
• provide respective visual representations of the respective reactions of each of the one or more participants for display within a user interface that is presenting the live streaming video,
• wherein the identifying the one or more co-located participants comprises presenting to the publisher and currently participating ones of the co-located participants a list of nearby social network connections and asking the publisher and the currently participating ones of the co-located participants to select which of the connections should be added as participants to the live stream.

A system comprising:

• a processor, a computer readable memory and a computer readable storage medium associated with a computing device;
• program instructions to identify a publisher of a live streaming video of an event taking place at a location, the event being a gathering of people;
• program instructions to identify one or more co-located participants associated with the live streaming video, wherein the one or more co-located participants are located within a boundary of the event, the one or more co-located participants and the publisher being different;
• program instructions to monitor behavior of each of the one or more participants, wherein the monitoring comprises monitoring sensor data or user device activity associated with the one or more participants;
• program instructions to automatically determine respective reactions of each of the one or more participants based on the monitoring the behavior;
• program instructions to generate respective distilled visual representations of each the respective reactions;
• and
• program instructions to provide the respective distilled visual representations for display within a user interface that is presenting the live streaming video,
• wherein the program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the processor via the computer readable memory.