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4th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2006
Beyond Usability, Broadcast, and TV
Athens, Greece, May 25-26, 2006
Scheduled Speakers and Themes
-Human Connectedness by S.Agamanolis
-Interactive TV Graphics by P.Cesar
-Mobile and Interactive TV Usability by O.Daly-Jones
-Beyond Usability, J.Jensen
-DTV Metadata and Ambient TV by A.Lugmayr
-Business Models by M.Pagani
-Interactive Narrative by E.Wand
Final Call for Papers
Following on from three previous EuroITV conferences, the steering committee of the EuroITV has decided to hold the 4th European Interactive TV Conference in Athens, Greece. After the successful organization of the Summer Olympics 2004, Athens enjoys a modern infrastructure that facilitates business and leisure activities. EuroITV 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.
Special Theme
The special theme for the EuroITV 2006 conference is: 'Beyond Usability, Broadcast, and TV.' We welcome submissions that address interactive TV with a focus on the following emerging research and practice issues:
-Beyond usability: Sociability, playability, emotional design
-Beyond broadcast: Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), peer-to-peer (P2P) distribution
-Beyond TV: Cross media, mobile TV, smart home, home media station
Topics
Your contributions on any aspect of interactive TV are invited. Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics:
-Audience research
-Interactive storytelling
-Interactive advertising
-Entertainment computing
-t-commerce, t-learning, t-health
-Ethical, regulatory and policy issues
-Interoperability, standards, metadata
-Games, betting, play-along game shows
-Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports, etc)
-Authoring, production and virtual reality systems
-Content management, digital rights management
-Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology
-Communication services, video conferencing, messaging
-Business models, media management, media economics
-Personalization, user modeling, intelligent user interfaces
-Electronic program guide (EPG), video search, video navigation
-Usability, accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction
Organizing Committee
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
George Doukidis
George Lekakos
ELTRUN, the eBusiness Research Center
Athens University of Economics and Business
Program Committee
S.Agamanolis, MIT Media Lab, USA
L.Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
P.Bates, pjb Associates, UK
M.Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA
A.Berglund, Linkoping University, Sweden
B.Bushoff, Sagasnet, Germany
P.Cesar, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
K.Chorianopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
O.Daly-Jones, Serco Usability Services, UK
N.Ducheneaut, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA
L.Eronen, Helsinky University of Technology, Finland
D.Fels, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada
J.Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
N.Lee, Disney Online, USA
G.Lekakos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
P.Looms, Danish Broadcasting (DR), Denmark
R.Luckin, University of Sussex, UK
A.Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
J.Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
M.Pagani, Bocconi University, Italy
L.Pemberton, Brighton University, UK
C.Quico, TV Cabo, Portugal
B.Rao, Polytechnic University, USA
T.Rasmussen, Aalborg University, Denmark
M.Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands
B.Smith, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
J.Thornton, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA
G.Uchyigit, Imperial College London, UK
P.Vorderer, University of Southern California, USA
Important Dates
Courses and workshops September 30, 2005
Full and short papers November 30, 2005
Research in progress,
doctoral consortium,
videos, demos, panels January 30, 2006
All accepted papers and contributions will be published in the conference proceedings. Full paper submissions will be peer reviewed and published in a book, by Idea Group Inc. A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of ACM Computers in Entertainment (http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/).
Social Events and Excursions
Social events will be arranged during the conference. The venue will be conveniently located for excursions to historical places and islands, before and after the event.
Contact
Send your contributions and any inquiry about the conference to: [log in to unmask]
For up to date information and further details visit: http://uitv.info/euroitv06/
Host
ELTRUN, the eBusiness Research Center (http://www.eltrun.aueb.gr)
Department of Management Science and Technology (http://www.dmst.aueb.gr)
Athens University of Economics and Business (http://www.aueb.gr)
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