Understanding Interactive Television Newsletter - March 2003


March 2003

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


What's new
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/updates/

*A Conceptual Model for Future TiVo Services*
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/articles/2003/03chorianopoulos/

*Search for interactive television news*
Now in beta testing, you can use the tools of the editorial team to find
the news that did not make it to the front page.
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/search/news/



Editorial
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/editorial/

*Who Says Science Can't Be Fun?*
Academic research about interactive television has been hovering around
(http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/about/) --with little success so far-- for at
least 10 years now, under the names of technologies such as multimedia,
VOD, CDROM, CDI, broadband Internet, digital STBs, etc. Each of the
previous research efforts has contributed considerable results, which
are now giving shape to interactive television products and these are
also giving birth to an ongoing research about TV centric home
infotainment appliances that we keep track of under the section Home
Media Station (http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/topics/hms/). Additionally, we
firmly believe that the emerging academic treatment of video games
(http://www.ludology.org) is contributing, apart from hi-end hardware
and software, the necessary understanding for designing computer
mediated leisure applications. Most notably, the game playing and
scientific approach are being intermixed in the Media Lab Europe
(http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,57232,00.html) research
projects.

*Sony-The complete home entertainer?*
We have been closely covering developments in consumer electronics, home
networking for entertainment and in general information technology
forays into the living room (http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/topics/hms/). For
most of these innovations the role of Sony is instrumental. Recently,
diverse and high-profile publications have been paying tribute to these
efforts, by presenting the steady process of household penetration with
devices and content that carry Sony's logo. Wired magazine is describing
an ongoing civil war between Sony's electronics and media divisions
(http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/sony.html). Economist is
giving an analysis of the Japanese giant's mentality and strategy
(http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1606326),
while Newsweek is describing how the spirit of its founders is still
evident in most of Sony's innovations.
 (http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/861338.asp).



Articles
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/articles/

*A Conceptual Model for Future TiVo Services*
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/articles/2003/03chorianopoulos/
This research is based on the realization that the desktop computing
paradigm is not appropriate for television, because it is adapted to
fundamentally different user aspirations and activities. Instead, the
virtual channel is proposed as a model that explains the proper design
of user access to interactive television programming. The virtual
channel is a model that aids the organization and dynamic presentation
of television programming from a combination of live broadcasts,
prerecorded content and Internet resources for each set-top box. In this
article, we introduce the rationale and benefits of the virtual channel
model for interactive television applications.



News
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/news/

AOL Is Planning a Fast-Forward Answer to TiVo
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/10/technology/10AOL.html
Personal video recorders like TiVo mock everything a television network
is about. AOL Time Warner, however, is trying to beat TiVo Inc. at its
own game.

Xbox hurting Microsoft's bottom line
http://inquirerinside.com/?article=7570
A filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission has revealed how
much its bid to topple the Playstation 2 console is costing to
Microsoft.



Events
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/events/

The 3rd International Conference on Computational Semiotics for Games
and New Media
University of Teesside (UK). 10th - 12th September, 2003
http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/p.c.fencott/cosign2003/cfp.htm
Deadline: 28th March 2003.




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





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