5th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2007

Interactive TV: a Shared Experience
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 24-25, 2007 





1st Call for Papers

Following on from previous conferences, the steering committee of the EuroITV has decided to hold the 5th European Interactive TV Conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. EuroITV brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that include human-computer interaction, media studies, computer science, telecommunications, audiovisual design and management. The organizing committee invites you to submit 
original high quality papers addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings.




Special Theme

The special theme for the EuroITV 2007 conference is: “Interactive TV: a shared experience” We welcome submissions that address interactive TV with a focus on the following emerging research and practice issues: 
- Shared TV: sociability, playability, emotional design
- Shared Home: cross-media, home media station, smart home
- Shared Distribution: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, mobile TV
- Shared Content: recommendations, end-user annotations
- Shared Communications: instant messaging, video conferencing



Important Dates

Full and short papers
Submissions			December 15, 2006 
Courses and workshops
Proposals			October 20, 2006 
Research in progress, 
doctoral consortium,
videos, demos, panels		January 26, 2007



Topics

Your contributions on any aspect of interactive TV are invited. Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics: 
- Authoring, production, content enrichment, and annotations
- Business models, media management, media economics
- Communication services, video conferencing, messaging
- Content management, digital rights management
- Interactive storytelling, Interactive advertising
- Electronic program guide, video search, video navigation
- Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports)
- Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL)
- Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology
- Personalization, user modelling, intelligent user interfaces
- Usability, accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction 
- Ethical, regulatory and policy issues
- Ambient intelligence
- Audience research
- P2P broadcast
- Mobile TV
- VR systems, 3DTV
- t-commerce, t-learning
- Entertainment computing
- Meta-data
- Television content modelling
- Games, betting, play-along game shows



Organizing Committee

P. Cesar (Program chair)
K. Chorianopoulos (Program co-chair)
J. Jensen (Program co-chair)




Program Committee (partial list)
S. Agamanolis, Independent Scholar, USA
L. Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
L. Aroyo, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands 
M. Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA 
A. Berglund, Linkoping University, Sweden 
B. Bushoff, Sagasnet, Germany
P. Cesar, CWI, Netherlands
K. Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany 
O. Daly-Jones, Serco Usability Services, UK 
L. Eronen, Helsinky University of Technology, Finland 
D. Geerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
L.F. Gomes, PUC-RIO, Brazil
J. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
H. Knoche, UCL, UK 
M. Howell, BBC New Media, UK
N. Lee, ACM Computers in Entertainment, USA
G. Lekakos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
J. Lilius, Abo Akademi University, Finland
P. Looms, Danish Broadcasting, Denmark
A. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
J. Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, Scotland 
M. Pagani, Bocconi University, Italy 
J. Pazos, University of Vigo, Spain
L. Pemberton, Brighton University, UK
C. Peng, VTT, Finland
J.A. Pouwelse, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
C. Quico, TV Cabo, Portugal
T. Rasmussen, Aalborg University, Denmark
M. Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands 



Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed and all accepted papers will be published in a book, by an international publisher.
A selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of ACM Computers in Entertainment (http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/).



Social Events and Excursions

Social events will be arranged during the conference.





Contact

For up to date information and further details please visit:  http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007
Send your contributions and any inquiry about the conference to: euroitvinfo(at)cwi.nl




Host

CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science (http://www.cwi.nl)