WEB on TV

Proceedings of EuroITV, 2005

2009

Internet-based interactive TV is an emerging field that is affected by advances in various research areas including communication, interactivity, network efficiency, content management and aesthetics. Despite constantly reducing costs in the area of broadcast infrastructure development, this new medium has yet to claim its market position and recognition. Various reasons may be identified for this lack of penetration in today’s markets. The large market-share of existing non-interactive technologies is a governing factor, followed by quality of service issues and the absence of a widely accepted standard for interactive broadcasting that will enable the development of devices that allow interaction in an outof-the-box user-experience. Various independently developed software-based technologies such as Joost, Babelgum and VeohTV have explored to certain extent the interactive and social aspects of streaming media, including live user-to-user chat, dynamic content search and the forma...

2000

A peculiarity of the DynamicTV project carried on at Telecom Italia is that exploration and discovery of contents is regarded as an entertainment activity for the user. This led to the design of new interaction paradigms and interfaces for the TV medium. iDynamicTV is a study for implementing the same principle on the Web. iDYNamicTV is a social adaptive Web2.0

2006

In Britain some 62% of households have access to digital television, and the British government has mapped out a plan to steadily shut down all analogue TV signals by 2012 (Lowery Miller, 2005), with the expectation that all UK households will benefit from the digital future. Over the next few years, television and the Internet are expected to converge even more to create a communication and information medium for the mass market, enabling on-line access without the need to purchase and learn the intricacies of computers.

Human–Computer Interaction Series, 2013

The accessibility evaluation of Web applications has been gaining momentum in previous years. Several guidelines and systems are now available to assess the accessibility of a Web page. However, these guidelines have been show to be inadequate when assessing dynamic Web applications. Furthermore, when considering adaptive Web applications, another layer of dynamism is introduced, further complication the problem. This chapter presents a framework for accessibility evaluation of adaptive Web applications, expanding on previous work for evaluating dynamic Web applications. The framework will be described in the context of an evaluation of TV based Web applications, and the results will assist in the characterization of the accessibility of this particular field of Web applications. Nádia Fernandes, Daniel Costa, Carlos Duarte, Luís Carriço 30% of connected TVs in Europe are actually online), with major brands such as Apple, Google and Samsung investing in this field.

2006 International Telecommunications Symposium, 2006

This paper describes the development of an interactive application for Digital TV. The architectural decisions, drawbacks, solutions, advantages and disadvantages of Interactive Digital TV development are discussed. The application, an e-mail client and its server, are presented and the main considerations about its development are shown, especially a protocol developed for communication between Internet systems and Digital TV systems.

2007

We are on the threshold of a mediamorphosis that will revolutionize the way we interact with our TV sets. The combination between interactive digital TV (IDTV) and the Web fosters the development of new interactive multimedia services enjoyable even through a TV screen and a remote control. Yet, several design constraints complicate the deployment of this new pattern of services. Prominent unresolved issues involve macro-problems such as collecting information on the Web based on users' preferences and appropriately presenting retrieved Web contents on the TV screen. To this aim, we propose a system able to dynamically convey contents from the Web to IDTV systems. Our system presents solutions both for personalized Web content search and automatic TV-format adaptation of retrieved documents. As we demonstrate through two case study applications, our system merges the best of IDTV and Web domains spinning the TV mediamorphosis toward the creation of the personal-TV concept.

Changing Television …, 2008

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

The current market of television services adopts several broadcast technologies (e.g. IPTV, DVBH, DTT), delivering different ranges of contents. These services may be extremely heterogeneous, but they're all affected by the continuous increase in quantity of contents and this trend is becoming more and more complicated to manage. Hence, future television services must respond to an emerging question: in what way could the navigation among this increasing volume of multimedia contents be facilitated? To answer this question, a research study was conducted, resulting in a set of guidelines for Interactive TV development. At first, the current scenario was portrayed through a functional analysis of existing TV systems and a survey of actual and potential users. Subsequently, interaction models which could possibly be applied to Interactive TV (e.g.: peer-to-peer programs) were assessed. Guidelines were eventually defined as a synthesis of current best practices and new interactive features.