UITV.INFO Newsletter - August 2005

August 2005

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***4th European Interactive TV conference - EuroITV 2006 - Athens,
Greece, May 18-19***
2nd Call for Papers
Official web site is now online at http://www.eltrun.aueb.gr/euroitv2006/  
The 2nd Call for Papers (CfP) is attached in TXT format



Industry News
http://uitv.info/news/

MHP Services In Europe: Current Position Reviewed
http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=platforms&id=2205
Across Europe, interactive services using the DVB Multimedia Home
Platform (MHP) standard have been launched on cable, satellite and
terrestrial platforms. While not formally mandated by the European
Commission, MHP has been embraced as an open and interoperable
standard that can be actively encouraged and promoted. Already,
several countries have launched MHP-based interactive services on the
terrestrial platform.

BBC gets creative with licence
http://informitv.com/articles/2005/04/15/bbcgetscreative/index.shtml
In an uncomfortable effort by Auntie to be cool, the BBC Creative
Archive project has launched under the banner of "Find it. Rip it. Mix
it. Share it." The project web site enthusiastically proclaims: "In
other words, you can rip, mix and share the BBC."

Ad networks could expand to TV, mobile phones
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/04/23/BUGTSCDTG71.DTL&type=business
The future won't be limited to the Web page ads that Internet users
are accustomed to seeing today. Yahoo and Google probably will expand
their ad networks to television and mobile phones as online and
offline media increasingly converge.

PARC to Make TV Watching More Social
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/00000084.htm
Being developed by scientists at the famed Palo Alto Research Center
(PARC), credited with inventing the Ethernet and the laser printer,
Social TV will allow geographically dispersed friends to chat and
watch TV together.

Our Ratings, Ourselves
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/magazine/10NIELSENS.html
For the past decade or so, watching television in America has been
defined by the families recruited by Nielsen Media Research who have
agreed to have an electronic meter attached to their televisions or to
record in a diary what shows they watch. This setup may not last much
longer. Just as programmers and advertisers are clamoring for a better
understanding of the television audience, a wave of new consumer
products has made it increasingly difficult to satisfy them.

Videos Quick, Easy and Automatic
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,66231,00.html
A new program called Videora combines BitTorrent and RSS to
automatically download a computer user's favorite videos. It's another
application the entertainment companies will likely hate and consumers
will love.



Events
http://uitv.info/events/

4th European Interactive TV conference (EuroITV 2006)
http://www.eltrun.aueb.gr/euroitv2006/
Athens, Greece, May 18-19, 2006
Deadline for Courses and Workshops: September 30, 2005



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



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


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 Services, UK
N. Ducheneaut, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA
L. Eronen, Helsinky 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
B. Rao, Polytechnic University, USA
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 Southern California, USA


Important Dates
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 Idea Group Inc. 

A selection of 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 visit: 
http://www.eltrun.aueb.gr/euroitv2006/


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

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