Tutorials
The following tutorials will be held on Wednesday 3 June 2009 at EuroITV2009. See the exact schedule in the conference programme.
T1 User Experience in TV-centric Services: What to consider in the Design and Evaluation?
T2 Standardized IPTV services in Managed IP Infrastructures
T3 Ambient Media – An Introduction by Case-Studies
T4 How to create an iDTV campaign
T5 Designing and Evaluating the Sociability of Interactive Television
T1 User Experience in TV-centric Services: What to consider in the Design and Evaluation?
Marianna Obrist (University of Salzburg), Hendrik Knoche (University College London) and Damien Alliez (NDS Technologies France)
This tutorial will be held on Wednesday 3 June from 9:00-12:30
The purpose of this tutorial is to motivate researchers and practitioners to think about the challenging question how to design for and evaluate user experience in TV-centric services. There is no common understanding of user experience yet, but a lot of different approaches and definitions. In particular, when trying to understand and address user experience in the design and development process of new TV-centric systems or services, clear guidelines are often missing. Within this tutorial, we provide not only a state-of-the-art overview on user experience but want to make a first step towards a better understanding on this concept in the EuroITV community.
More details on this tutorial can be found in the full abstract of tutorial 1 (pdf)
T2 Standardized IPTV services in Managed IP Infrastructures
Oliver Friedrich and Robert Seeliger (Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS)
This tutorial will be held on Wednesday 3 June from 9:00-12:30
This half day tutorial will give a deep inside on IPTV over telco driven Next Generation Networks and other concurrent approaches from the Consumer Electronics Industry. In detail this includes ongoing IPTV standardization activities under the umbrella of Next Generation Networks (NGN) and the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) at involved Standard Development Organizations (SDOs) as ETSI TISPAN, Open IPTV Forum, ITU-T IPTV GSI and DVB. Furthermore the different views of Telco operators & industry, Consumer Electronics (CEs) and content providers will be analyzed which includes a discussion of so called Telco walled garden vs. Portal walled gardens or "Who owns the customer" issues. In a third track available services, service signaling & user experience issues will be presented followed by a fourth track introducing a real world test bed for converged media services called FOKUS MI Lab (www.mediainteroperabilitylab.org) using the well known Fraunhofer FOKUS Open IMS Playground as signaling infrastructure. A live demonstration and hands on session will be included in this tutorial.
More details on this tutorial can be found in the full abstract of tutorial 2 (pdf)
T3 Ambient Media – An Introduction by Case-Studies
Artur Lugmayr (Tampere University of Technology)
This tutorial will be held on Wednesday 3 June from 13:30- 17:00
Media evolved from media that can be described as integrated presentation in one form (multimedia). From multimedia, media evolved towards em bedding the consumer in a computer graphic generated synthetic world (virtual reality). From this point on, media evolved to the consumers directly exposed to the media in their natural environment, rather than computer interfaces (ambient media). In addition, media will be evolving towards a fully real/synthetic world undistinguishable from pure media integrating human capacity (biomedia or bio‐multimedia) somewhere in the very far distant future. The goal is to train and educate participants in new innovative service design for ambient multimedia. The course will cover potential and possibilities of this new multimedia field and its relation to other trends, such as ubicom, pervasive computation, affective computation, and tangible media. Specific key‐concepts of ambient media are developed based on various business case studies.
More details on this tutorial can be found in the full abstract of tutorial 3 (pdf)
T4 How to create an iDTV campaign
Koen Swings (Zappware)
This tutorial has been cancelled
Participants get a short introduction after which they will be asked to create an iDTV campaign. During the introduction Zappware will showcase some iDTV campaigns, describe the Zappware iFormats and demonstrate how to create an iDTV campaign using Zappware's Iview Platform. After the introduction teams of maximum 4 participants will be asked to create an iDTV campaign themselves. In order to do so they will first have to brainstorm and come up with a concept. Then they have to choose a suitable iFormat after which they can start to create the iDTV campaign. They will also have to create suitable images and write appealing texts. Two Zappware collaborators will be present to assist if necessary. Each team then presents his own iDTV campaign. All the iDTV campaigns are evaluated by the participants and by the presenter and his two collaborators. The best iDTV campaign wins a bottle of Freixenet champagne.
More details on this tutorial can be found in the full abstract of tutorial 4 (pdf)
T5 Designing and Evaluating the Sociability of Interactive Television
David Geerts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
This tutorial will be held on Wednesday 3 June from 13:30- 17:00
In this tutorial, we will discuss how the social uses of television have an impact on how we should design and evaluate interactive television 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, parts of it are also suitable for social webTV or for more general iTV applications.
More details on this tutorial can be found in the full abstract of tutorial 5 (pdf)