Interactive Digital Television Technologies And Applications

Author : Lekakos, George,Chorianopoulos, Konstantinos,Doukidis, Georgios
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781599043630

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Interactive Digital Television: Technologies and Applications by Lekakos, George,Chorianopoulos, Konstantinos,Doukidis, Georgios Pdf

The developments in digital television technology provide the unprecedented opportunity to drastically extend the role of television as a content delivery channel. E-health, e-commerce, e-government, and e-learning are only a few examples of value-added services provided over digital televisions infrastructures. These changes in the television industry challenge companies to adjust their strategies in order to meet the opportunities and threats in this new environment. Interactive Digital Television: Techniques and Applications presents the developments in the domain of interactive digital television covering both technical and business aspects. This book focuses on analyzing concepts, research issues, and methodological approaches, presenting existing solutions such as systems and prototypes for researchers, academicians, scholars, professionals and practitioners.

Author : Tibor Kunert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781848822757

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User-Centered Interaction Design Patterns for Interactive Digital Television Applications by Tibor Kunert Pdf

Technology is meant to make life easier and to raise its quality. Our interaction with technology should be designed according to human needs instead of us being required to adapt to technology. Even so, technology may change quickly and people and their habits change slowly. With the aim of supporting user acceptance of iTV, the focus of this book is on the usability of iTV applications. A method for developing interaction design patterns especially for new technologies is presented for the first time. The main characteristics covered in this new approach are: systematic identification of recurrent design problems; usability as a quality criterion for design solutions; integration of designers into the pattern development process including identification of designers' needs, and iterative evaluation and optimisation of patterns to encourage designers to accept and use them; usability testing to identify proven design solutions and their trade-offs; presentation of specific design guidelines.

Author : H. O. Srivastava,Hari Om Srivastava
Publisher : Artech House
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1580535488

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Interactive TV Technology and Markets by H. O. Srivastava,Hari Om Srivastava Pdf

"This forward-looking book focuses on interactive television (ITV), and illustrates how it is changing the face of TV broadcasting. The book provides professionals with important technical, strategic, and creative expertise to help in the development of ITV systems and with the assessment of their future business potential. Interactive TV Technology and Markets explains how bandwidth limitations associated with analog TV signals are eliminated as cable, satellite, and terrestrial TV network operators switch to digital bandwidth."--Jacket.

Author : Arthur Lugmayr,Samuli Niiranen,Seppo Kalli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781475739534

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Digital Interactive TV and Metadata by Arthur Lugmayr,Samuli Niiranen,Seppo Kalli Pdf

Recent years have brought many changes to the world of mass media. The In ternet and mobile communications technology have provided consumers with interactive digital services. Television is catching up with this trend through the digitalization process. Digital television is a hybrid platform combining elements from classical analog television and the Internet, providing modern multimedia services on a familiar platform. In short, digital TV is a gateway to the world of interactive digital media. Digital TV brings consumers into the television service arena and offers them new degrees of freedom. However, as the service and multimedia content types diversify and the services and their content increase, television is facing many of the same challenges of complexity and information overflow faced by other digital media. Metadata can handle the diverse services and content of digital TV effi. ciently and in a consumer-friendly way. Metadata means that the data are accompanied by other data which describe them. As data about data, meta data can provide an insight into syntactically and semantically complex data by distilling their essence to a set of simple descriptors. Metadata also helps to structure and manage information in diverse settings. The use of metadata in broadcast multimedia should not be restricted to being merely a tool for coping with the challenges of a complex networked multimedia environment. Instead, metadata ofTers new opportunities for the development of innovative services.

Author : Pablo Cesar,Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
Publisher : Now Publishers Inc
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Interactive television
ISBN : 9781601982568

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The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward Interactivity by Pablo Cesar,Konstantinos Chorianopoulos Pdf

The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users towards Interactivity provides an overview of the evolution of TV systems, TV content, and TV users towards interactivity, with a special focus on sociability aspects. Three basic concepts are introduced, namely, content editing, content sharing, and content control. Content editing corresponds to the activity of developing or organizing multimedia material, traditionally the domain of professionals but also including user-generated content. Content sharing refers to all kinds of social activities that might occur around television watching, such as chatting about television content and sharing content. Finally, content control corresponds to the activity of deciding what to watch and how to watch it. A simple taxonomy (edit-share-control) is proposed as an evolutionary step over the established hierarchical produce-deliver-consume paradigm. The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users towards Interactivity looks at how research in the area has spanned a rather diverse set of scientific subfields, such as multimedia, HCI, CSCW, UIST, user modeling, media and communication sciences. It demonstrates how each disciplinary effort has contributed and why the full potential of interactive TV has not yet been fulfilled. Finally, it describes how interdisciplinary approaches could provide solutions to some notable contemporary research issues. The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users towards Interactivity is aimed at students and researchers, practitioners and developers. It assumes a basic understanding of past and current practices on the design of computer applications, networks and media content.

Author : Margherita Pagani
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781931777384

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Multimedia and Interactive Digital TV by Margherita Pagani Pdf

"Addressing the issues that managers in the multimedia industry have confronted while developing and implementing this innovative technology, this book focuses on the latest research and findings in digital television technologies. Covered are the major issues surrounding digital convergence including the digital metamarket and new digital media devices and their potential for IT convergence at the macro level. Also addressed are multimedia and interactive digital television and the economic implications of these technologies. Additionally, the managerial implications of interactive digital television are covered, including branding strategies for digital television channels and the critical role of content media management."

Author : Mark Gawlinski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136054419

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Interactive Television Production by Mark Gawlinski Pdf

Interactive Television Production is essential reading for all broadcasting and new media professionals - whether in production, marketing, technology, business or management. It will also be of interest to media students and anyone looking to get an insight into the future of television production. It provides a practical, step-by-step guide to the processes and issues involved in taking an interactive television idea through to being an operational service - based on the knowledge and experience of leading interactive television producers. This book can be used as a quick-and-easy reference guide, with each chapter containing a 'Chapter in 30 seconds' summary for easy reference, or read from cover to cover. Using accessible language, the author provides detailed descriptions of iTV software technologies (OpenTV, MHEG-5, TV Navigator), delivery technologies (cable, satellite and terrestrial) and production tools. There are also entire chapters devoted to key issues like the commercial side of iTV and the latest work on usability and design. The accompanying web site www.InteractiveTelevisionProduction.com contains useful links designed to help with common iTV questions and issues. There are also entertaining quizzes for each chapter that let you test your knowledge of the concepts introduced in the book.

Author : Jerry C. Whitaker
Publisher : Demystified
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015049986931

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Interactive TV Demystified by Jerry C. Whitaker Pdf

The first-ever, fact-filled introduction to the brave new world of interactive TV: what it is, its services, and the across-the-board impact on television, cable, and computer industries. It covers the basic standards. Offers state-of-the-art coverage of interactive TV business models, the hype and reality of media convergence, TV datacasting, PC-based receivers and other smart appliances, case histories, and more.

Author : María José Abásolo,Telmo Silva,Nestor D. González
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030238629

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Applications and Usability of Interactive TV by María José Abásolo,Telmo Silva,Nestor D. González Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Iberoamerican Conference on Applications and Usability of Interactive Television, jAUTI 2018, in Bernal, Argentina, in October 2018. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Contexts of application of the IDTV; Design and Implementation Techniques of IDTV Content and Services; Interaction Techniques, Technologies and Accesibility of IDTV Services; Testing and User Experience of IDTV Services.

Author : Hartmut Wittig
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783322868510

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Intelligent Media Agents by Hartmut Wittig Pdf

Intelligent agents are rescuer in the information glut. They help users to find information which better corresponds to their interests and needs. This book describes the architecture and basic modules of an intelligent media agent. A personal television guide is described as an example of intelligent help, addressing the problem of managing TV channels by using an intelligent agent.

Author : David Feinleib
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Ineractive video
ISBN : 0122515706

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The Inside Story of Interactive TV and Microsoft WebTV for Windows by David Feinleib Pdf

Interactive Television is a budding, yet potentially revolutionary, technology application. The future of the Internet, World Wide Web, and television are marching towards a shared and interconnected future, where the Web and television will eventually be linked. In this book, David Feinleib tells the real inside story of the people and companies that took the risk to enter this next age of television and computer. Here you will find the insights of both the individuals and companies that are exploring this digital, interactive future. * First-hand accounts of industry veterans who made the decision to explore new forms of television and the Internet. * Complete narration of the adverse set of issues as told by advertising agency executives, producers of popular favorite television shows, and everyone in between. * Tells the evolution of Interactive Television, offers a technical reference to the new technologies involved, and details case studies of the cutting-edge companies that have begun to bring interactive content to the public today.

Author : Dirk Schmelz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640527441

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A Future Scenario of Interactive Television - Information and Technology That Belongs to the Rich? by Dirk Schmelz Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 1994 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: B+, University of Amsterdam, language: English, abstract: In the following l want to discuss the effects the interactive television technology might have on the ′Information society′ and which tasks have to be fulfilled to become a member of it. l want to focus on the question, what are the advantages to be a ′member′ of such a society and what advantages these technologies offer? My task is not to find a definite answer to these questions. They must be seen as speculative ones. All the new communication technologies like interactive television, are just at the beginning of its ′booming′ development and there is no empirical research done on it yet. However, want to take the interactive television technology as an example to discuss, what opportunities this new technology offers. Therefore, my work is primarily a theoretical approach to an issue that will become even more important if the new System will knock on the door of private households in Europe. l also want to discuss some ideas of Bertolt Brecht, who already in the 1920′s made suggestions for interactive broadcasting, which were primarily concerned about the radio system. But nevertheless his ideas are still applicable on any other communication system. His ideas of interactivity are more relevant than ever.1 The industry took on this argument for their own purposes. They Claim, that interactive television is absolutely necessary, because the Computer generation is raised with interactivity. Video games are one the best examples for interactivity. As well as the latest information l collected from newspapers, l will also use magazines and other media.

Author : Alan Mink,Robert Snelick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Digital television
ISBN : OCLC:1312502994

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Symposium on the Foundations of Interactive Digital TV Applications Software Environment (DASE) by Alan Mink,Robert Snelick Pdf

Author : Tiako, Pierre F.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 3994 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781605660615

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Software Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by Tiako, Pierre F. Pdf

Includes articles in topic areas such as autonomic computing, operating system architectures, and open source software technologies and applications.

Author : Jens F. Jensen,Cathy Toscan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 8773076252

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Interactive Television by Jens F. Jensen,Cathy Toscan Pdf

Television is one of the most successful technological consumer products ever produced. It has spread to virtually every household in Western society and for many TV has become their most important source of information and entertainment. TV, however, is not a static medium - neither as a technology nor as a service. Game consoles, VCR's, cable and satellite systems have already begun to change the image of what TV is and what it can be. In the years ahead, television faces even more radical changes and developments. Terms liker interactivity digitization, convergence, networked multimedia, the information super highway, integrated full service networks, content-on-demand, two-way cables, direct broadcast satellites, datacasting etc. point out some of the aspects involved in this process of change. Briefly, what is at stake is the delivery of interactive, digital, multimedia service to the home. The anthology describes and discusses various aspects of this transition. In this context, the phrase television of the future covers the entire spectrum of new multimedia content and services - from traditional TV sets to multimedia personal computers; from network computers to game consoles; and from terrestrial broadcasting, cable systems, to satellite TV.