This paper presents results of a user study including ten users. The study participants gathered data on themselves in their home environment over a three-day period. They also designed innovations of future interactive applications for digital television. A subsequent interview with the researcher revealed more of the study participants’ thoughts of the interactive applications for digital tel...

Video hyperlinking is regarded as a means to enrich interactive television experiences. Creating links manually however has limitations. In order to be able to automate video hyperlinking and increase its potential we need to have a better understanding of how both broadcasters that supply interactive television and the end-users approach and perceive hyperlinking. In this paper we report on th...

The spatial properties of digital interactive multimedia are analysed and contrasted with those of pictures, and of narrative feature films and factual television. These media have developed distinctive spatial methods and questions arise concerning the transferability of such methods to other, interactive, forms. A taxonomy is proposed which reflects existing practice in digital interactive me...

This paper is the first step to an understanding of how engagement with interactive television advertisements may increase the relevancy of a brand and therefore facilitate the automatic processing of the brand’s logo (measured via the P3a) after viewing the advertisement, compared to non-interactive television ads. Event-related potentials (ERPs) and attitudes were measured in response to adve...

This paper describes the process of an educational institution implementing an interactive television solution. The fundamental issue is the educational role within a TV environment as research continues to show that viewers expect entertainment on television. Edutainment, the successful integration of education into the entertainment environment of television, is not going to be a trivialisati...

BACKGROUND Sedentary behaviors, including screen time, in childhood have been associated with an increased risk for overweight. Beginning in infancy, we sought to reduce screen time and television exposure and increase time spent in interactive play as one component of a responsive parenting (RP) intervention designed for obesity prevention. METHODS The Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growi...

The Rich News system for semantically annotating television news broadcasts and augmenting them with additional web content is described. On-line news sources were mined for material reporting the same stories as those found in television broadcasts, and the text of these pages was semantically annotated using the KIM knowledge management platform. This resulted in more effective indexing than ...

Television and movie images have been altered ever since it was technically possible. Nowadays embedding advertisements, or incorporating text and graphics in TV scenes, are common practice, but they can not be considered as integrated part of the scene. The introduction of new services for interactive augmented television is discussed in this paper. We analyse the main aspects related with the...

Viewers with vision impairments often have difficulty seeing all of the content on television and now they have the added task of seeing and interpreting interactive elements that are primarily image or graphics based. We carried out two studies to examine the difficulties partially sighted and blind users have with current interface designs for interactive television. Results indicate that peo...