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~~~~~~~ BRITISH HCI GROUP NEWS SERVICE ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/ ~~ ~~ All news to: [log in to unmask] ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ~~ ~~ not the News Service ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6th European Interactive TV Conference EuroITV 2008 - Changing Television Environments July 3rd to 4th 2008 in Salzburg, Austria http://www.EuroITV2008.org <http://www.euroitv2008.org/> 1st Call for Papers The EuroITV conference brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that include human-computer interaction, media studies, computer science, telecommunications, audiovisual design and management. The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality papers addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. The special theme is "Changing Television Environments" We welcome submissions that address interactive TV with special emphasis on: * Changing TV contexts and new entertainment environments * Changing user behaviours, user experiences and needs * Changing TV technologies and production environments * Changing TV towards new content formats * Changing services and business models Important Dates: Tutorials and Workshop Proposals December 7th, 2007 Full Paper Submissions January 11th, 2008 Short Papers, Posters, Doctoral Consortium, Demos February 29th, 2008 Industrial Case Studies April 25th, 2008 Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics: * Beyond the home context, extended home, Mobile TV * Ambient intelligence, ambient media environments * Social TV, sociability, usability and user experience * Digital content production, HDTV and digital cinema * Asset management, metadata and content enrichment * Entertainment computing, games, betting, game shows * Broadband and IPTV * 3DTV and VR systems * Audience research, ethnography, user studies * New advertising and revenue models for television * Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction * Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, t-learning * Web2.0, user-generated content * Communication services, video conferencing, messaging * Content management, digital rights management * Interactive storytelling, interactive advertising * Electronic program guide, video search, video navigation * Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports) * Changes in technical requirements and infrastructures (ubiquitous and mobile) * Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL) * Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology * Personalization, user modelling, intelligent user interfaces * Ethical, regulatory and policy issues Paper submission will be peer-reviewed and all accepted papers will be published by an international publisher. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue in a journal. A selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of ACM Computers in Entertainment (http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/). Conference Organizing Committee: Manfred Tscheligi (General Chair) Marianna Obrist and Artur Lugmayr (Conference Co-chairs) Judith Masthoff (Tutorials Chair) Lyn Pemberton (Doctoral Colloquium Chair) Erika Reponen and Thomas Mirlacher (Demonstration Chairs) Sander A.J.P. Limonard, Owen Daly-Jones and Gunnar Harboe (Industrial Case Studies Chairs) Regina Bernhaupt and David Geerts (Short Papers & Posters Chairs) Pablo Cesar and Hendrik Knoche (Workshop Chairs) Michael Darnell and Bart Hemmeryckx-Deleersnijder (Industrial Liaison Chairs) Program Committee: To be announced Contact: For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.EuroITV2008.org/ Send your contributions and any inquiry about the conference to: info(at)euroitv2008.org To receive updates about EuroITV2008 Conference, subscribe to the Conference mailing list by going to: http://lists.icts.sbg.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/euroitv2008-info Host: HCI & Usability Unit, ICT&S Center of the University of Salzburg (http://www.icts.uni-salzburg.ac.at <http://www.icts.uni-salzburg.ac.at/> ) Co-organized by IFIP In cooperation with ICT&S Center / University of Salzburg / CITIZEN MEDIA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ To receive HCI news, send the message: ~~ ~~ "JOIN BCS-HCI your_firstname your_lastname" ~~ ~~ to [log in to unmask] ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ Newsarchives: ~~ ~~ http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bcs-hci.html ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ To join the British HCI Group, contact ~~ ~~ [log in to unmask] ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This message is intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied or disclosed to anyone else outwith the University without the permission of the sender. 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