UITV.INFO May 2005 newsletter - Special Issue: EuroITV 2006, Athens, Greece

May 2005

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Special Issue: 4th European Interactive TV conference - EuroITV 2006 -
Athens, Greece
http://uitv.info/euroitv06/ 
1st Call for Papers (CfP) for EuroITV 2006


4th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2006
Beyond Usability, Broadcast, and TV
Athens, Greece, May 18-19, 2006 


1st Call for Papers
Following on from three previous EuroITV conferences, the steering committee
of the EuroITV has decided to hold the 4th European Interactive TV
Conference in Athens, Greece. After the successful organization of the
Summer Olympics 2004, Athens enjoys a modern infrastructure that facilitates
business and leisure activities. EuroITV brings together researchers and
practitioners from diverse disciplines that include human-computer
interaction, media studies, computer science, telecommunications,
audiovisual design and management. The organizing committee invites you to
submit original high quality papers addressing the special theme and the
topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings.

Special Theme
The special theme for the EuroITV 2006 conference is: "Beyond Usability,
Broadcast, and TV." We welcome submissions that address interactive TV with
a focus on the following emerging research and practice issues:
.Beyond usability: Sociability, playability, emotional design
.Beyond broadcast: Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), peer-to-peer (P2P)
distribution
.Beyond TV: Cross media, mobile TV, smart home, home media station

Topics
Your contributions on any aspect of interactive TV are invited. Papers are
solicited from, but not limited to the following topics:
.Audience research
.Interactive storytelling
.Interactive advertising
.Entertainment computing
.t-commerce, t-learning, t-health
.Ethical, regulatory and policy issues
.Interoperability, standards, metadata
.Games, betting, play-along game shows
.Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports, etc)
.Authoring, production and virtual reality systems
.Content management, digital rights management
.Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology
.Communication services, video conferencing, messaging
.Business models, media management, media economics
.Personalization, user modeling, intelligent user interfaces
.Electronic program guide (EPG), video search, video navigation
.Usability, accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction


Organizing Committee
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
George Doukidis
George Lekakos

ELTRUN, the eBusiness Research Center
Athens University of Economics and Business


Program Committee
S. Agamanolis, MIT Media Lab, USA
L. Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
P. Bates, pjb Associates, UK
M. Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA
A. Berglund, Linkoping University, Sweden
K. Chorianopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
O. Daly-Jones, Serco Usability, UK
N. Ducheneaut, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA
L. Eronen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
D. Fels, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada
J. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
G. Lekakos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
P. Looms, Danish Broadcasting (DR), Denmark
N. Lee, Disney Online, USA
R. Luckin, University of Sussex, UK
J. Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
M. Pagani, Bocconi University, Italy
L. Pemberton, Brighton University, UK
C. Quico, TV Cabo, Portugal
T. Rasmussen, Aalborg University, Denmark
M. Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands
B. Smith, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
J. Thornton, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA
G. Uchyigit, Imperial College London, UK
P. Vorderer, University of South California, USA


Important Dates (Submission Deadlines)
Courses and workshops           September 30, 2005
Full and short papers           November 30, 2005
Research in progress, 
doctoral consortium, 
videos, demos, panels           January 30, 2006

Paper submissions will be peer reviewed and all accepted papers will be
published in a book, by an international publisher. 

A selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of ACM
Computers in Entertainment (http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/).

Social Events and Excursions
Social events will be arranged during the conference. The venue will be
conveniently located for excursions to historical places and islands, before
and after the event.

Contact
Send your contributions and any inquiry about the conference to:
euroitv@xxxxxxxxx
For up to date information and further details please visit:
http://uitv.info/euroitv06/

Host
ELTRUN, the eBusiness Research Center (http://www.eltrun.aueb.gr)
Athens University of Economics and Business (http://www.aueb.gr)


UITV.INFO is a Sponsor of Communication for EuroITV 2006



Edited by Dr. Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
http://uitv.info/about/editors/chorianopoulos/
ELTRUN: The eBusiness Research Center
Athens University of Economics and Business



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