Understanding Interactive Television Newsletter - November 2002


November 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/


What's new

Find online the proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Personalization in Future
TV
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/topics/um01tv01/


Highlights from the Blog
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/blogger/

Digital video recorders and television commercials: Friends or Foes? Ad
skipping TiVo has collaborated with television ratings Nielsen! This
justification has been considered 2 years before in the design of the iMEDIA
system (http://imedia.intranet.gr) for personalized advertising-breaks. The
users of iMEDIA may choose to watch a personalized advertising-break
(http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/papers/lekakos02/), in addition to opportunities
for browsing through interactive advertisement content.

Are you a looser? After at least 10 years in the press, in the labs and
troubled market trials you are still interested in a non-existent medium
(call me interactive television)? Not exactly! Television has grown to be
such an ubiquitous medium that changing it is now very difficult --at least
in the very short term. Nevertheless, change happens subliminally through
video-game consoles, DVDs and Digital Video Recorders that bring a
user-friendly high-end PC on top of your TV set. Keep believing!


News

Interactive TV: Is It Here Yet?
http://www.mediapost.com/dtls_dsp_news.cfm?newsID=187607
If advertising is ever going to catch on in interactive television, it’s
going to have to be a little easier to place. At the very least.
Participants in a seminar Tuesday evening on the interactive TV market
sponsored by Filter Media in New York City agreed that the medium hasn’t
come anywhere near its potential.

Microsoft and HP Unveil the Media Center PC
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,547468,00.asp
Previous forays into the living room left Microsoft with a mixed record.
WebTV and UltimateTV were flops, while the Microsoft Xbox has been outsold
but not overwhelmed by the Sony PlayStation. Now comes the new Windows XP
Media Center Edition, an ambitious attempt to integrate home audio and video
functionality into a high-end pc.

Hard drives: The new VHS tape
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962028.html
A growing number of hard-drive manufacturers and start-ups are touting a new
use for the hoary data vault that's been one of the chief PC components for
more than two decades. They want to see it used as a portable storage device
for gadgets such as set-top boxes, game consoles and digital stereo
receivers.


Events

International Conference on Cross-media Service Delivery
CMSD 2003, May 30-31 2003, Santorini, Greece
http://contessa.intranet.gr/conference
Deadline: January 15, 2003

Second International Conference on Entertainment Computing
May 8-10, 2003, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.etc.cmu.edu/icec2003/
Deadline: December 31, 2002

TIDSE 2003 - 1st International Conference on Technologies for Interactive
Digital Storytelling and Entertainment
http://www.zgdv.de/TIDSE03/
Deadline: December 15, 2002

European Conference on Interactive Television: from Viewers to Actors?
(Brighton, U.K. April 2-4 2003 )
http://www.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/staff/rng/EuroITV/
Deadline EXTENDED: December 11, 2002


Reviewed Resources

Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell (2002). A call for the home media network.
Communications of the ACM, vol.45, no.7, pp.71--75.
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/papers/bell02/
On the one hand television advertising is irritating to a lot of
people -research has shown that as much as 30% of people zap during the
advertising-break. On the other hand, Bell and Gemmel propose that
advertising may be a remedy to the Digital Rights Management (DRM) issues
that arise when manipulating copyrighted media content in the home. This
way, the dynamic insertion of advertising, during the play-out of
copyrighted media content in the home, is a form of substitution for the
royalty rights that have to been paid to media owners.


Articles

The Home Media Station: An Emerging Class of Home Infotainment Appliances
http://itv.eltrun.aueb.gr/articles/2002/11chorianopoulos/
The term "Home Media Station" (HMS) stands for an emerging class of
television-centric appliances used for information and mainly
entertainment —usually referred to as infotainment— purposes. This category
encompasses devices that range from video game consoles, mp3 juke-boxes,
set-top boxes, digital video editors, digital video recorders, to
combinations of the above. In this article, we provide an introduction to
the HMS from a human-computer interaction perspective.



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