Since its implementation for entertainment purposes (primarily in Europe), text-on-television has been a promising platform for broad audience interaction via a mass medium. This study tests a novel text-on-television format and analyzes feelings of presence and participation in an experimental setting. Despite the fact that a vast majority of participants had not experienced text-on-television...

In this paper we illustrate a technical solution to the Interactive Television Applications case study presented in [1] using languages and tools from the Epsilon GMT component based on the infrastructure provided by the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF).

This final working paper is part of the study I conducted during my 5 months stay as a doctoral fellow with STeM in the School of Communications at Dublin City University (autumn/winter 2002). The aim of this paper, which is the amalgamation of two papers I worked on at DCU, is to sum up the main issues that I am concerned with in relation to the introduction of interactive television: domestic...

VIEWER RESPONSES TO INTEACTIVE NARRATIVE: A COMPARISION OF INTERACTIVE VERSUS LINEAR VIEWERSHIP IN ALINE AND GROUP SETTING By Sangyeob Lee Based on researches about viewers’ emotional responses to media, the emotional responses to interactive video were studied. Because of the nature of interactive television, the involvement of people during watching the video was expected to be increased. Thi...

This research is based on the realization that the desktop computing paradigm is not appropriate for television, because it is adapted to fundamentally different user aspirations and activities. Instead, the virtual channel is proposed as a model that explains the proper design of user access to personalized television programming. The virtual channel is a model that aids the organization and d...