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

 

 


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