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IFIP TC14 - Entertainment Computing
Working Group on Interactive TV (ITV)
Chair: Lyn Pemberton
Vice-chair: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
Secretary: Pablo Cesar
Members:
Pablo Cesar Garcia (CWI, Netherlands) - Secretary
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos (Ionian University, Greece) - Vice Chair
Mike Darnell (Microsoft TV, Mountain View, USA)
David Geerts (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
Shang Hsu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Jens F. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
George Lekakos (ELTRUN, Greece)
Artur Lugmayr (Tampere University, Finland)
Judith Masthoff (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
Marianna Obrist (University of Salzburg, Austria),
Lyn Pemberton (University of Brighton, England) - Chair
Celia Quico (Lisbon, Portugal)
Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares (PUC-RIO, Brazil)
Zhang Liping (Dalian University, China)
The wide availability of broadband networks and the diffusion of powerful multimedia computing in ubiquitous devices (e.g. mobile multimedia phones, home media stations, digital video recorders) have allowed interactive control of audiovisual content by the TV producer and by the end-user. To promote ITV research and development, and to enhance the use of ITV in the home and on the move, the technical committee will pursue the following activities:
Aims
- To promote visibility and to increase the impact of research and development in the ITV field
- To bring together interdisciplinary approaches to ITV research and development issues (e.g. content production, computer science, media studies)
- To encourage cooperation between researchers and other established bodies and organizations, through the development of joint project proposals
- To facilitate the development of suitable academic and practical teaching programs
Scope
- Alternative content distribution (mobile TV, peer-to-peer TV, IPTV)
- Content formats, interactive storytelling, user contributed content
- Interactive and personalized advertising systems
- Applications for t-commerce, t-learning, t-health, entertainment
- Ethical, regulatory and policy issues
- Interoperability of middleware, standards, multimedia metadata
- Authoring, production and virtual reality systems
- Content management, digital rights management
- Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology
- Community television, content enriched communication, video conferencing
- Personalization, user modeling, intelligent user interfaces
- Usability, accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction
Activities
- 5th European Conference on Interactive Television (EuroITV 2007), CWI, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 6th European Conference on Interactive Television (EuroITV 2008), ICTS, Salzburg, Austria
- First International Conference on Designing Interactive User Experiences for TV and Video (UXTV 2008), Silicon Valley (San Francisco Bay Area), California, USA
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