UITV.INFO Newsletter - November 2005

November 2005

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***4th European Interactive TV conference - EuroITV06 - Athens,
Greece, May 25-26, 2006***

*Scheduled Speakers and Themes include:*
-Human Connectedness by S.Agamanolis, MIT Media Lab, USA
-Interactive TV Graphics by P.Cesar, CWI, Netherlands
-Mobile and Interactive TV Usability by O.Daly-Jones, Serco Usability
Services, UK
-Beyond Usability, J.Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
-DTV Metadata and Ambient TV by A.Lugmayr, Tampere University of
Technology, Finland
-Business Models by M.Pagani, Bocconi University, Italy
-Interactive Narrative by E.Wand, Braunschweig University of Art, Germany

*EuroITV06 Final Call for Papers (CfP) and paper submission
guidelines/template are now available online*
http://uitv.info/euroitv06/cfp/

UITV.INFO is a sponsor of communication for EuroITV06



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

Piracy Is Good? PART ONE: HYPERDISTRIBUTION
http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html
Piracy presents us with an economic problem: how do producers get paid
for the programs they create when audiences disintermediate the
distribution channels through which producers get paid for their
programming? This article outlines one economic model ó actually more
like a family of models ó which connects television producers to their
audiences through an hyperdistribution strategy, one which doesn't
require any change in the audience's economic behavior.

TV Phones Prep for Prime Time
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2004/tc2004121_1328_tc119.htm
Mobile TV is coming to a cell phone near you -- and it could leave hot
offerings like ringtones and text messaging in the dust

Search Battle Heads to Video
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67302,00.html
After competing for your search queries, e-mail patronage and browser
homepage, the next internet portal war will likely be for your video
viewing time.

Only you can save television
http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/03/more_long_tail_.html
As the business models of traditional media and entertainment crumble,
so will the hit-machine distribution bottlenecks that stand between us
and a million niches. The best example of that is television, which is
in the sweet spot of all Long Tail forces.



Events
http://uitv.info/events/

4th European Interactive TV conference (EuroITV 2006)
http://www.eltrun.aueb.gr/euroitv2006/
Athens, Greece, May 25-26, 2006
Deadline for Short and Long Papers: November 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 25-26, 2006


Scheduled Speakers and Themes
-Human Connectedness by S.Agamanolis
-Interactive TV Graphics by P.Cesar
-Mobile and Interactive TV Usability by O.Daly-Jones
-Beyond Usability, J.Jensen
-DTV Metadata and Ambient TV by A.Lugmayr
-Business Models by M.Pagani
-Interactive Narrative by E.Wand


Final 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
B.Bushoff, Sagasnet, Germany
P.Cesar, CWI, Netherlands
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
N.Lee, Disney Online, USA
G.Lekakos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
P.Looms, Danish Broadcasting (DR), Denmark
R.Luckin, University of Sussex, UK
A.Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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



All accepted papers and contributions will be published in the conference 
proceedings. Full paper submissions will be peer reviewed and 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://uitv.info/euroitv06/


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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