Euro ITV 2006

4th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2006

Beyond Usability, Broadcast, and TV

Athens, Greece, May 25-26, 2006

1st 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

M. Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA

A. Berglund, Linkoping University, Sweden

K. Chorianopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

O. Daly-Jones, Serco Usability, 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

G. Lekakos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

P. Looms, Danish Broadcasting (DR), Denmark

N. Lee, Disney Online, USA

R. Luckin, University of Sussex, UK

J. Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

M. Pagani, Bocconi University, Italy

L. Pemberton, Brighton University, UK

C. Quico, TV Cabo, Portugal

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 South 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

Paper submissions will be peer reviewed and all accepted papers will be published in a book, by an international publisher.

A selection of the best 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

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For up to date information and further details please 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)