Understanding Interactive Television Newsletter - August 2002


August 2002

News, conferences and site updates

UNDERSTANDING INTERACTIVE TELEVISION
Academic and research resources about interactive television
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/

Edited by the researchers of ELTRUN
EBusiness Center of the Athens University of Economics and Business
http://www.eltrun.aueb.gr/


News

DVDs Could Spark Digital TV Sales
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,54442,00.html
Forget Washington politicking, the 30 million people who own DVD players
will be the ones who cast the deciding votes on the success of digital
television.

Why TV Is Getting More Graphic(s)
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,54329,00.html
Upcoming television shows illustrate how sophisticated computer graphics
(CG) –- once the preserve of expensive movies like Star Wars –- are
transforming television production.

TiVo Might Rue Arrival of DTV
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,54358,00.html
The VCR has given way to TiVo, but consumers who have shelled out hundreds
of dollars for digital video recorders could be out of luck in the near
future.


Events

Special Issue on "User Modeling and Personalization for Television", in the
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization
Research.
Deadline: September 30, 2002
http://www.di.unito.it/~liliana/UMUAI-TV/

Application and Development of Computer Games (6-7 January, 2003, Hong Kong)
2nd International Conference (ADCOG).
Deadline: September 16, 2002
http://www.adcog.org/


Reviewed Resources

Jon O'Brien and Tom Rodden and Mark Rouncefield and John Hughes (1999). At
home with the technology: an ethnographic study of a set-top-box trial. ACM
Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), vol.6, no.3,
pp.282--308.
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/329693.329698
Strong evidence of the importance of a metaphor is provided by O'Brien et
al. (1999), in an ethnographic study of a digital set-top box trial, when
they point out the need for a 'working model' of the technology being
employed by users in home activities. They discuss the need for a conceptual
model for digital set-top box usage, after household members are confused
about the location of their data and how the system works. By Konstantinos
Chorianopoulos.


Articles

A Human Centered Approach to Interactive Television Applications' Design
By Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/articles/2002/08Chorianopoulos.htm
Digital television is one of the new technologies emerging in the media
industry. The impact of digital television on the way people watch
television is expected to be great, not only because it enhances the
audiovisual experience of the user, but more importantly because it
introduces interactivity. Apart from displaying television in a
high-fidelity format, digital television will introduce a series of
interrelated technologies that will allow television to become interactive,
so that viewers can play along with game shows, get information from the
Internet as they watch a show, or buy a vast array of products and services
online. The introduction of digital technologies to television has been
studied from business  (Pramataris et al. 2001) and technical (Milencovic
1998) viewpoints. In this article television is examined from a media
consumption point of view, which is proposed as a human centered approach to
interactive television design.



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