ii ABSTRACT Author: Yongjun Zhang University: Helsinki University of Technology Laboratory: Telecommunication Software and Multimedia Department: Computer Science and Engineering Professership: T-111 Interactive Digital Media Name: A Java 3D Framework for Digital Television Set-top Box Date: 15.10.2003 Num. Pages: 56 Supervisor: Petri Vuorimaa Instructor: Pablo Cesar Digital television offers a...

Digital television offers significantly increased capacity, which can be used to provide digital Teletext service. The existing digital Teletext belongs to enhanced broadcast application profiles. It has only local interactivity and no return channel is needed. The digital Teletext with two-way interactivity is highly expected both from the growing market and the research area. This paper prese...

This study investigated the hypothesis that background television affects interactions between parents and very young children. Fifty-one 12-, 24-, and 36-month-old children, each accompanied by 1 parent, were observed for 1 hr of free play in a laboratory space resembling a family room. For half of the hour, an adult-directed television program played in the background on a monaural television...

Distance education is among the significant fields for the application of educational technology. Distance education in China has gone through three phases, namely: correspondence-based education, radio and TV-based education and online education. This paper was based on educational technology application, and the historical, dialectic and developmental perspectives. It analyses the social and ...

To meet the challenges of ubiquitous computing, ambient technologies and an increasingly older population, researchers have been trying to break away from traditional modes of interaction. A history of studies over the past 30 years reported in this paper suggests that Gesture Controlled User Interfaces (GCUI) now provide realistic and affordable opportunities, which may be appropriate for olde...

The potential of digital TV demonstrates that it could be an excellent connection between map information suppliers and citizen, users of such information. The Brazilian digital television standard will be fully adopted in Brazil in 2016 and starts to be adopted in almost all Latin American Countries. It will reach many areas, being accessible to about 600000 people. Nevertheless, the Brazilian...

With the release of the standard, digital television terrestrial broadcasting is being gradually extended in many places. In order to speed up the extension and the application, also to evaluate the existing digital television terrestrial broadcasting system, we need a easy-to-use signal analysis and measurement system. The traditional signal measurement method is through the special hardware c...

Digital television (DTV) provides pedagogical and technological advantages to education. DTV is presented as a novelty for the audience and involves the convergence of education, telecommunications, and internet in a unique environment. This technology will allow for the development of interactive educational platforms known as t-learning platforms. Currently, there are relatively few models wh...

Recently, coaxial cable networks have received much attention in the context of interactive application [1,2]. In countries with a high penetration of CATV (e.g. Belgium >90%), the cable network forms a viable alternative to classical telephone networks. Envisaged applications are telephony, interactive television, home-shopping, video-ondemand, high-speed Web browsing, etc. The interactive nat...

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...