Usability Test for Interactive Television Programme : Skytouch Channel on Digital Satellite Platform

Digital Actors for Interactive Television

In this paper, we define the concept of digital actors and show their importance in the future interactive digital television and multimedia. We discuss the applications of these digital actors in the new multimedia services especially for training and education. We summarize the main techniques to create and control these digital actors and emphasize the importance to develop new tools for the...

A Digital Broadcast Item (DBI) enabling metadata repository for digital, interactive television (digiTV) feedback channel networks

Digital television (digiTV) is an additional multimedia environment, where metadata is one key element for the description of arbitrary content. This implies adequate structures for content description, which is provided by XML metadata schemes (e.g. MPEG-7, MPEG-21). Content and metadata management is the task of a multimedia repository, from which digiTV clients equipped with an Internet conn...

Games and Gaming for Interactive Digital Television

This report focuses on the possibilities of convergence regarding video games and digital television. The report consist roughly of four parts: First, there is a brief discussion about media studies on television viewing. These observations will be related to research on gaming as a form of media use. Second, the interactive digital television (iDTV) peripherals (set-top box and remote controll...

Bringing All Users to the Television: A Platform Based on Java for Building Interactive Television Applications

User interface development for interactive television: extending a commercial DTV platform to the virtual channel API

We explore the generation of interactive computer graphics at digital set-top boxes in place of the fixed graphics that were embedded to the television video before the broadcast. This direction raises new requirements for user interface development, since the graphics are merged with video at each set-top box dynamically, without the traditional quality control from the television producers. B...