This article provides a review of past research on K-12 interactive television (ITV) programs in the United States. While the number of web-based distance learning courses is increasing, ITV is still widely used for K-12 learners. ITV allows students to communicate with remote teachers and classmates in real time and to create a learning environment that is similar to face-to-face instruction. ...

To enable the future users to create their own product concepts is a relatively new idea in the design of consumer products. In this paper, ten TV viewers created new concepts of interactive television programs and applications for digital television. During the user study, the study participants were asked to gather data on themselves in their home environment. The study focused on TV viewers’...

Recently, there has been a significant increase in the number of UK television shows in which viewers call into the show using a premium-rate telephone service. At one level it could be argued that in these instances viewers are participating in a lottery. Viewers are typically asked to call a premium-rate telephone line to answer a simple question. Winners are then chosen from all those viewer...

The ongoing Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) switchover leads to an interesting opportunity for the implementation of advanced television services. Actually, these services can even be interactive, since it is foreseen that the required Set-Top Boxes (STB) could be equipped with an Internet connection. However, among the future clients of DTT there are a large number of elderly and visually...

With the advent of digital television, more specifically interactive television, the emergence and adoption of the JavaTM DVB-MHP standards here in Australia provides developers with a range of new technologies and issues. An appreciation of broadcast technologies, in particular MPEG-2 and the Object Carousel are required to understand the facilities and constraints of this new JavaTM technolog...

The improvement of the Brazilian system of interactive Digital Television (iDTV) has amplified usage perspectives for television in the educational realm, due to new possibilities of interaction. Thus, there is a growing discussion over the development of educational content that will address the needs of this new reality. The present article describes concepts of the technological, communicati...

Television has been around for many decades now and has become ubiquitous. Analog TV technology, however, which was developed before the 1940’s, has remained essentially the same over the last 50 years. Alternative digital transmission standards have been developed recently and are in use for satellite and cable transmissions. This technology is now being deployed for terrestrial TV as well. Th...

Broadcast and broadband communications have undoubt- edly become a part of today’s social life. Accessibility of content of interest to the audience at any place and at any time regardless of the type of content consumer device can have an effective contribution to the desire of the audience to use of the broadcast content. The HD and Ultra HD qualities, the desire for demand-driven application...

Broadcast and broadband communications have undoubt- edly become a part of today’s social life. Accessibility of content of interest to the audience at any place and at any time regardless of the type of content consumer device can have an effective contribution to the desire of the audience to use of the broadcast content. The HD and Ultra HD qualities, the desire for demand-driven application...

xploiting a networked virtual environment (NVE) architecture, we produced the gaming part of an interactive television drama series, Typo-Toons. For decades TV-showmakers have been inventing tools and tricks to enhance the stories they tell (slow motion, repeated action, various cameras, moving cameras, commentators, picture in picture, voiceover, graphics overlays, and so on). Equivalents of, ...