Tutorials

We are happy to host the following tutorials during EuroITV2010 in Tampere:

  • T1 (half day): Browser, Widges and Applications: An Insight on State-Of-The-Art Technologies for the Creation of Service Frontends for Social and Interactive TV Experiences
    Oliver Friedrich (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)
    The technological landscape for the generation of interactive applications enabling Social Television aspects is changing rapidly. In this tutorial participants will learn about the newest developments in this domain. The focus will lie on already available technological frameworks available from the different players in the market. This includes Browser and Widget driven approaches as well as end-to-end IPTV ecosystems. This will be paired with disruptive ideas combining on the on the first look silo oriented solution with aspects from IPTV standardization.
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  • T2 (half day): ESCape – Directions for Next Wave of Interactive Television Research
    Konstantinos Chorianopoulos (Ionian University, Greece) and Pablo Cesar (CWI, The Netherlands)
    This course provides the foundations for the design of interactive television experiences on the Web and beyond. It regards the human and social aspects of content editing, sharing, and control with a special focus on television for the Web. In particular, the course provides the attendants with a background on the technologies, and user behavior. We present the ESCape framework, which describes interactive TV research up to this day, as well as provides a solid ground for further research. ESCape stands for content editing (E), content sharing (S) and content control (C). We propose this taxonomy so that designers of future interactive teleivion can choose their path of research, with awareness of other directions that have been explored in the past.
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  • T3 (half day): Designing and Evaluating the Sociability of Interactive Television and Online Video
    David Geerts (CUO, IBBT/K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
    In this tutorial, we will discuss how the social uses of television have an impact on how we should design and evaluate interactive television and online video applications. We will focus on the concept of sociability, and explain how this can be evaluated by using sociability heuristics. We will also discuss how sociability can be studied by performing user tests, and which aspects of testing are different from studying usability. Although the guidelines and user tests are especially appropriate for designing and evaluating social television systems and online social video, parts of it are also suitable for other iTV or online video applications.
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  • T4 (half day): Experience Prototyping layered ITV Applications
    Rich Radka (Node – Innovation for Growth, Spain)
    Anna Karoliina Hiltunen (Node-Innovations for Growth, Spain)
    The purpose of the tutorial is to practice methods that can be used to develop scenario-driven prototypes to reveal how users will interact with applications that are layered over the primary video content on ITV platforms.By 2012, TV manufacturers plan to release at least 100 million televisions into the global market that will be internet-enabled and upon which applications will run concurrent with video content. Many of the attendees at EuroITV 2010 – whether they represent manufacturers, carriers, services, or enabling technologies – have a vested interest in trying to understand how consumers will interact with this growing world of applications on the TV. All too often, product and service development, especially in the telecoms space, tends to begin with technologies and/or business plans and not with the actual needs and behaviors of consumers in the real world. This tutorial aims to leverage the cross-functional expertise that will be in attendance at EuroITV 2010 in order to develop user-centered rapid prototypes of interactive experiences to share ideas about innovative yet realistic paths to pursue in ITV.
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  • T5 (half day): Recommender Systems for Interactive TV
    Paolo Cremonesi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
    Roberto Turrin (Neptuny, Italy)
    Recommender systems alleviate the problem of searching for interesting content in the iTV domain where users are overwhelmed by the abundance of TV channels, programs and videos. The technologies enabling a personalized viewing experience through TV recommendations are evolving rapidly. In this tutorial participants will learn about the newest developments in the domain of recommender systems and personalized TV. The focus will be on state-of-the-art technologies that can be used to identify users' taste by using either social-based, collaborative approaches or content-based analysis of TV programs. The tutorial will also provide a deep understanding of the role played by user-based assessment methods and of the effectiveness of automatic quality metrics (accuracy, errors, coverage, novelty, serendipity). During the tutorial, participants will use an on-line TV recommender system in order to experiment with the features of different recommendation techniques.
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