You may use this document for any personal or educational purpose. For-profit use requires my permission. Provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty. Summary Searching for the Holy Grail is the difficult quest for a successful business model of ITV or the content (almost used as a mythical concept) of successful ITV (trigger applications etc) without clearly knowing what one is look...

Interactive storytelling and gaming technologies have great edutainment potential for engaging visitors with museum exhibitions. This paper presents the development and testing of the Interactive Storytelling Exhibition Project devised originally within the Factual and Learning Interactive Television Department of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and continued development at the Unive...

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...

The main study objective was to investigate the effect of interactive television-based cognitive training on cognitive performance of 119 healthy older adults, aged 60-87 years. Participants were randomly allocated to a cognitive training group or to an active control group in a single-blind controlled two-group design. Before and after training interactive television cognitive performance was ...

In this paper we discuss the commonalities and differences of hypervideo and interactive television. We show that, even if the interaction and presentation of both are similar, there are strong differences in handling the content and the link structure of those media. The production and editorial process for live interactive television with hyperlinks and added value including production and ed...

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...

In the past there has been a lot of research in the area of humancomputer interaction. With the arrival of digital television, the television becomes more and more like a computer. A new form of television is being introduced: interactive television. The only interaction with the television in the past was via the remote control. Interactive television provides opportunities for new interaction...

This paper presents a case study of Portugal’s specific developments in the use of interactive television as a learning resource. The paper depicts the Digital Interactive Television evolution in Portugal since 2001 and discusses the T-Learning and iTV Edutainment implementation experiences developed in the country since that period. An exemplary project is used to discuss the shape of learning...

The BBC has deployed a sophisticated scheduling and automation system to support an increasing range of interactive television services while minimising operational costs. The British Broadcasting Corporation offers interactive services on eight public television channels on digital satellite, terrestrial and cable television in the UK, with national variations for the main channels in England,...