What next for interactive television?

Interactive Television

Broadcast Multimedia, Arthur Lugmayr, Samuli Niiranen, and Seppo Kalli, Springer, 2004, $80, 254 pp., ISBN 0-38720843-7. In the 1930s, television gradually found its way into consumers’ homes. With the introduction of color TV in the 1960s, it became a widespread and highly accepted consumer product. It has taken another 40 years to bring a new innovation into the world of TV: the digitalizatio...

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...

IntegraTV-4all: an interactive television for all

A project of industrial research, oriented to the investigation related to the “e-inclusion and eattendance Strategic Action” of the Spanish National Program of Technologies of Services of the Information Society, is undertaken, whose object is the acquisition and application of new knowledge and techniques that can turn useful to contribute to considerably improve the services of interactive a...

Beyond-screen Interface for Interactive Television

What Comes Next? An Experiment in Interactive Narrative

Most interactive narratives fail to live up to their names. Static interactive narratives (e.g., fixed story graphs) tend to lack a large enough possibility space to allow for a sense of creation and ownership on the part of the player. Dynamic narratives can employ techniques that undercut, or remove entirely, the significance of player interaction. This paper introduces a proposal for a new s...