Understanding Interactive Television Newsletter - June 2002
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- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 17:37:48 +0300
June 2002
News, conferences and site (http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/) 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
TiVo Town or Sonicblue City?
Call it the DVR War, the battle over which company -- TiVo or Sonicblue, the
maker of the ReplayTV -- will come to dominate the future of digital video
recorders, and, perhaps, the future of TV. From Wired News
(http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53008,00.html)
New Idea for Targeted TV Ads
New set-top boxes being developed by Canal Plus and Scientific Atlanta will
allow advertisers to do that -- while giving consumers a measure of privacy
they don't normally get from interactive television services. From Wired
News (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,46765,00.html)
Conferences
USER INTERFACES FOR ALL (23-25 October, 2002 in Paris, France): "Universal
Access"
Submission deadline: 24 June 2002
http://ui4all.ics.forth.gr/workshop2002/
Featured Resources
M. Milenkovic (1998). Delivering interactive services via a digital TV
infrastructure. IEEE MultiMedia, 5(4):34-43, Oct.-Dec.
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/reviews/papers/Milenkovic98.htm
The broadcasting model of computing encompasses a radical shift in the
mentality of application development process and tools. Milenkovic
highlights the differ-ences with the client-server mentality, describes the
carousel concept and explains why the characteristics of the networking
infrastructure are an important factor in the type of feasibly deployed
applications. By Konstantinos Chorianopoulos.
Articles
Interactive Television Applications
By Julia Livaditi
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/articles/2002/06Livaditi.htm
Before understanding the design principles of digital TV systems, we have to
examine why and how television is used. This will help determine whether the
applications being planned and produced for digital television adhere to
fundamental needs and use patterns of the TV audience. The interactive
applications that have been identified through a literature review are:
Electronic Program Guide (EPG), Near Video On Demand (NVOD), interactive
shows, personalized advertising, interactive advertising, interactive news
and weather, interactive sports, stock market, shopping, banking and
messaging. The applications to be examined aim at satisfying one or more of
the basic needs of media consumption: Entertainment, information,
transactions and personal communications. The key applications that are
being planned and deployed for digital television are presented and
categorized.
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