5th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2007 Interactive TV: a Shared Experience Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 24-25, 2007 Sponsored by CWI In-Cooperation with ACM (SIGMM and SIGCHI) Co-organized by IFIP Paper submission will be peer-reviewed. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer LNCS. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue in a journal. A selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of ACM Computers in Entertainment (http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/). 2nd Call for Papers Following on from previous conferences, the steering committee of 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 November 1, 2006 Research in progress, doctoral consortium, videos, demos, panels January 26, 2007 2nd Call for Papers, we invite - Full and short papers - Demos, videos - Proposals for tutorial, workshop, doctoral consortium Submissions guidelines are available in the webpage of the conference (http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007). 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 General Chair: P. Cesar, CWI Conference co-chairs: K. Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar J. Jensen, Aalborg University Doctoral colloquium chair: J. Masthoff, University of Aberdeen Work in progress chair: L. Pemberton, Brighton University Demonstration chairs: B. Gammon, BBC New Media M. Howell, BBC New Media Workshops chairs: L. Ardissono, University of Torino A. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology Tutorials chairs: B. Bushoff, Sagasnet C. Peng, VTT Treasurer D.G.C. Broekhuis, CWI Program Committee S. Agamanolis, Independent Scholar, USA L. Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy L. Aroyo, Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands L. Barkhuus, University of Glasgow, UK A. Berglund, Linkoping University, Sweden M. Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA B. Bushoff, Sagasnet, Germany P. Cesar, CWI, the Netherlands K. Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany O. Daly-Jones, Serco Usability Services, UK N. Ducheneaut, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA L. Eronen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland B. Gammon, BBC New Media, UK D. Geerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium D. Goren-Bar, Haifa University, Israel T. Hujanen, University of Tampere, Finland J. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark J. Henriksson, Nokia, Finland C. Klimmt, Hanover University of Music and Drama, Germany H. Knoche, UCL, UK M. Howell, BBC New Media, BBC, 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 R. Luckin, University of Sussex, UK 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, the Netherlands R.P. Picard, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden R. Puijk, Lillehammer University College, Norway C. Quico, TV Cabo, Portugal B. Rao, Polytechnic University, USA T. Rasmussen, Aalborg University, Denmark M. Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands B. Shen, HP Labs, USA L.F.G. Soares, PUC-RIO, Brazil J. Stewart, University of Edinburgh, UK G. Uchyigit, Imperial College London, UK P. Vuorimaa, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland J. Yagnik, Google Research, USA Z. Yu, Nagoya University, Japan 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)