Interactive digital television is at early stage as regards the interface design, especially in business transactions (t-commerce). Current attempts to transpose the problem related to linearity of narrative and temporal flows and audiovisual content obstruction by the interactive layer, although pointing out design perspectives—in addition to the structural and visual web patterns—are still in...

Using the Portuguese interactive television service from TV Cabo as a working basis, this paper discusses the potential of communication services such as chat, forums and multi-user games to act as iTV community builders and to become real iTV killer applications. In the three cases presented in this paper – multi-player iTV games, interactive football matches and iTV talk-show “Noites Interact...

Interpersonal communication mediated by computer services supports the reinforcement and emergence of new communities brought together by leisure or work interests. This paper presents a workbench system that aims to study how the same principle can be applied in interactive television. The main objective is to allow TV users to be online (2BeOn) through the integration of basic and advanced co...

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...

The recent introduction of Interactive Television provides a novel environment for the support of multimedia content. We present some ideas and initial results from an investigation, where XSL is used to automate the transformation of content developed for the web environment into a form suitable for display on Interactive TV.

The emergence of Interactive Digital Television (iDTV) opened a set of technological possibilities that go beyond those offered by conventional TV. Among these opportunities we can highlight interactive contents that run together with linear TV program (television service where the viewer has to watch a scheduled TV program at the particular time it is offered and on the particular channel it i...

The world implementation of Interactive Digital Television (iDTV) has led to the emergence of technologies that offer the concept of new business models. There aren’t currently any private/public repositories for an imminent market of software components for Digital Television industry, or any techniques providing registration and discovery of services at runtime. This paper presents a standard...

The purpose of this literature review is to identify and address major themes in the distance education literature, particularly as they relate to interactive television (ITV) and student satisfaction. Major themes include satisfaction based on site-type, previous research biases, faculty-student interaction, characteristics of satisfied learners, qualitative differences in satisfaction, satisf...

This report focuses on the possibilities of convergence regarding video games and digital television. The report consist roughly of four parts: First, there is a brief discussion about media studies on television viewing. These observations will be related to research on gaming as a form of media use. Second, the interactive digital television (iDTV) peripherals (set-top box and remote controll...