On-demand regional television over the Internet

Bryhni, Haakon; Lovett, Hilde; Maartmann-Moe, Erling; Solvoll, Dag; Sørensen, Tryggve

doi:10.1145/244130.244153

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“…Video-on-demand was the central element in the early vision of iTV services [105]. Correspondingly, the academic community put effort into server-side architectures, broadband delivery, and thin network clients [29,70]. In terms of the commercial success, a retrospective evaluation of the respective research might lead to the conclusion that videoon-demand was not worthwhile pursuing.…”

Section: Multimedia Technology and System Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward Interactivity

César¹,

Chorianopoulos²

2007

FNT in Human–Computer Interaction

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Interactive TV research spans across a rather diverse body of scientific subfields. Research articles have appeared in several venues, such as multimedia, HCI, CSCW, UIST, user modeling, media and communication sciences. In this study, we explore the state-of-the-art and consider two basic issues: What is interactive TV research? Can it help us reinvent the practices of authoring, delivering, and watching TV? For this purpose, we have reviewed the research literature, as well as the industrial developments and identified three concepts that provide a high-level taxonomy of interactive TV research: (1) content editing, (2) content sharing, and (3) content control. We propose this simple taxonomy (edit-share-control) as an evolutionary step over the established hierarchical produce-deliver-consume paradigm. Moreover, we demonstrate how each disciplinary effort has contributed to and why the full potential of interactive TV has not yet been fulfilled. Finally, we describe how interdisciplinary approaches could provide solutions to some notable contemporary research issues. 'Interactive Television is an oxymoron. On the other hand, television provides the most common ground in our culture for ordinary conversation, which is arguably the most enjoyable interaction a person has. We should try to leverage the power of television while creating some channel back from the audience to provide content, control or just a little conversation.' * * Although we have tried to summarize previous research as much as possible, we still find that the quote by Dan O'Sullivan (Interactive Telecommunication program, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts) has been the most comprehensive definition of interactive television, so far.

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Section: Multimedia Technology and System Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward Interactivity

César¹,

Chorianopoulos²

2007

FNT in Human–Computer Interaction

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“…Video-on-demand and streaming of TV content to the consumer's home was the central element of the early vision of ITV services, during the 1990s (Little and Venkatesh 1994). Correspondingly, the academic community put effort into server side architectures, broadband delivery and thin network clients (Bryhni et al 1996;Furht et al 1995). In terms of the commercial success, a retrospective evaluation of the respective research leads to the conclusion that the video-on-demand direction was not worthwhile pursuing.…”

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confidence: 99%

Virtual television channels

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This doctoral dissertation aims to investigate user interface (UI) design, implementation and evaluation for interactive television (ITV) applications.Computer mediated entertainment (e.g. video-games, digital music, DVD movies, ITV) has emerged as a major economic factor in the media industry, taking-up a large portion of consumer spending and leisure time. Advances in set-top box technology made possible the digital video recorder (DVR) and Internet connectivity, thus making the television interactive. The objective of the present work is to evaluate the established human-computer interaction (HCI) theory against the requirements of ITV applications. Previous HCI research about ITV focused only on the design of the electronic program guide (EPG) and did not consider the enhancement of the TV content.Furthermore, previous research approached ITV from a single perspective (e.g. computer engineering, advertising, communication) and it did not consider the conflicts of interest between the broadcasters and the consumers, between the developers and the producers, and more crucially, it did not consider the ITV user as a TV viewer.For this purpose, the established TV watching behavior is identified in other scientific disciplines, such as advertising and communication, and it is combined with the Information Technology (IT) usability mentality. The design methodology involves two phases. The objective of the first design phase is to formulate a small set of principal elements that are generic to the design of ITV UIs, such as Virtual Channel conceptual model, UI principles, UI development toolkit, prototyping platform, and affective usability evaluation framework. The objective of the second design phase is to employ the elements identified in the previous stage into the development of an ITV application. The ITV application was evaluated by consumers and addressed three contemporary UI issues: video skipping, animated character, and dynamic advertisement insertion. Overall, the methodology employed a holistic design approach for ITV applications, in which the UI model and the business model were systematically mapped to and validated through an ITV music application.In brief, it was found that the track-skipping UI seamlessly enhanced consumer entertainment. Moreover, it was found that an animated character is preferred, when compared with the traditional transparent box for the presentation of related information. Consumers evaluated the dynamic advertisement insertion positively, thus, opening-up many opportunities for novel advertising formats. The employment of the proposed HCI elements made the design and the development of the ITV appliiii cation a straightforward process and produced an entertainment experience that was liked by the consumers.

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Gigabit networking in norway infrastructure, applications and projects

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Workshop on Wide Area Networks and High Performance Computing

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On-demand regional television over the Internet

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward Interactivity

The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward Interactivity

Virtual television channels

Gigabit networking in norway infrastructure, applications and projects

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