Understanding Interactive Television Newsletter - July 2002
- From: "Konstantinos Chorianopoulos" <chk@xxxxxxx>
- To: <uitv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:38:58 +0300
July 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
Major TV firms bid for digital licences
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2044824.stm
The UK's main TV networks have all put in bids to win digital terrestrial
television licences. The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are among the six applicants
trying to take over the licences left by the collapsed ITV Digital. From BBC
News.
Conferences
NordiCHI 2002 (19-23 October, 2002 in Aarhus, Denmark): "Tradition and
Transcendence"
Submission deadline: 1st August 2002
http://www.nordichi.org/
Reviewed Resources
Carey, J. (1999). Content and Services for the New Digital TV Environment.
In Gerbarg, D. (ed). The Economics, Technology and content of Digital TV.
Kluewer Academic Publishers
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/reviews/papers/Carey99.htm
Carey describes a broad scope of new channels and services that are possible
in a digital TV environment. These include high definition television, video
on demand movies, theme channels, multicasting or the distribution of the
same content on different channels at different times, Internet content on
TV sets, video program guides for hundreds of channels. By Konstantinos
Chorianopoulos.
Articles
Forces that Affect the Design of Digital Television Applications
By Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/articles/2002/07Chorianopoulos.htm
The field of HCI has been benefited by a multidisciplinary approach to
design problems (Ballay 1994). Successful user interfaces, apart from proven
methodologies and multiple design iterations, demand a diverse array of
design specialties. For the case of digital television, an exploratory
literature review has revealed three important disciplines of design: 1)
Broadcasting and consumer electronics engineering, 2) ethno-graphic study of
media consumption in home and 3) Interactive and multimedia con-tent
creation. Researchers from the respective fields have addressed the design
case of multimedia services in the home, but there is currently no aggregate
effort towards the direction of a holistic design for digital television
applications. Following a survey of diverse scientific perspectives on the
field of digital television applications, the most useful findings from each
discipline have been collected and analyzed.
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