WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS
Workshops are run on the first day of TVX2014 and vary from half-day to full-day in length.
Available Workshops |
TV and Video Interaction Jam
- Website: http://tvvij2014.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
- Submission Deadline: 05.05.2014
- Organizers:
- Regina Bernhaupt – IRIT, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, Toulouse, France
- David Geerts – K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Daniel Schwaiger – Ruwido, Neumarkt, Austria
- Contact: Regina Bernhaupt (regina.bernhaupt@ruwido.com)
Call for Participation
Game Jams, where strangers meet for a weekend to build games, but also Jams for applications or businesses, have become increasingly popular. By providing opportunities to experiment cheaply and quickly with exciting new ideas and technologies, these events motivate participants to make amazing things in short periods.
Events in the TV industry have successfully shown that the methodology of a Jam is suitable to develop applications that enhance the TV watching experience. Goal of this Jam is to investigate how we will control and interact in the future with TV and video content. One of the central elements for any Jam is to surprise participants with the topic to foster creativity and new ideas: so be ready to be surprised!
The TV and Video Interaction Jam is a free ‘Game Jam’ style workshop that will be held at TVX 2014. During the Jam, you will get the chance to work with a range of participants with different skills and experience to create a new and innovative interactive TV experience.
The TV and Video Interaction Jam is free to attend, and is open to both TVX attendees and people who are not planning to attend the main conference.
If you would like to take part in the Jam, please send an email stating your name and a short statement of your background and technical skills to: Regina.Bernhaupt@irit.fr by the 5th of March 2014.
The organisers together with a set of experts will select participants based on their experience and knowledge but also with the goal to balance skills between participants to allow a successful workshop.
2nd International Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption at TVX 2014
- Website: http://wsicc.net/
- Submission Deadline: 31.03.2014
- Organizers:
- Britta Meixner – Chair of Distributed Information Systems, Passau University, Passau, Germany
- Rene Kaiser – Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria
- Katrin Tonndorf – Universität Passau, Passau, Germany
- Joscha Jäger – Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany
- Contact: Britta Meixner (meixner@fim.uni-passau.de)
Call for Participation
This workshop focuses on novel forms of interactive content consumption. It will explore the shifting balance between lean-back passive TV and Web media consumption and lean-forward interactivity. Beyond entertainment, interactive audiovisual content has a high potential for learning and support scenarios. An interdisciplinary view on the topic shall be compiled by contributions from technical research, conceptual work, user-centric studies, industry developments, as well as experimental showcases. Below, some of the questions that the workshop aims to answer are listed:
- How can forms of (inter-)active media access be designed to be interwoven with passive consumption modes?
- How does the balance between active and passive consumption affect the Quality of Experience?
- How can active and passive content consumption foster learning?
- How can content personalization be enhanced through interactivity, and at which abstraction level do users want to interact?
- What do studies on interaction with content in the realm of social media sharing reveal?
- Do trends in content consumption behavior influence technical research by revealing new challenges?
The workshop is seeking 3 types of submissions: full research papers for presentations (4-6 pages), short papers for poster oral presentations and technical demos (2 pages). Presentation slides or short videos can be submitted in addition to the short papers for posters and demos. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and all participants must register for the TVX conference. For further information see www.wsicc.net.
1st Workshop on Empathic Television Experiences (EmpaTeX 2014)
- Website: http://empatex2014.org/
- Submission Deadline: 31.03.2014
- Organizers:
- Jan Van den Bergh – Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Hasselt University – tUL – iMinds, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Mike Matton – VRT, Brussels, Belgium
- Koen Willaert – IBBT SMIT VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Contact: Jan Van den Bergh (Jan.VandenBergh@uhasselt.be)
Call for Participation
Personalized TV/media experiences are becoming mainstream. Recommender systems and other personalization technology are frequently included in television sets and second screen applications.
Current systems lack one major ability: to be empathic, to take appropriate actions based on intentions or emotions of persons in front of the TV.
This workshop has two major goals:
- Bring together researchers and practitioners that work in the domain of affective computing and socially aware multimedia. We solicit contributions from different viewpoints including interaction, sensing and user behavior modeling technologies, TV production and distribution, psychology, sociology, human-computer-interaction.
- Discuss potential contributing technologies as well as (evaluation of) application concepts and services, and identify challenges, opportunities, threats and strengths of these technologies in specific scenarios. These can include, but are not limited to: TV peripherals that can detect intentions or emotions, interaction techniques or social-aware TV applications (that trigger empathic experiences), empathic recommender systems or new program formats.
Participants are selected using a position statement and (reference to) CVs of potential participants. The former can be under the form of a position paper (2 pages in the TVX format) or an alternative format, such as a presentation (including video). Each submission should be focused and contain reflection.
Contributions will be selected by the organizers and experts in the field based on relevance, originality, complementarity and expected benefits to the workshop discussions.
At least one author of accepted position statements should attend the workshop and all participants must register for the TVX conference. For more see http://empatex2014.org/.
