Changing Television Environments: 6th European Conference, Euroitv 2008, Salzburg, Austria, July 3-4, 2008 Proceedings

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Interactive Television, EuroITV 2008, held in Salzburg, Austria, in July 2008.

The 42 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 156 submissions. The contributions cover significant aspects of the interactive television domain including submissions on user studies, technical challenges related to new developments as well as new kind of formats. The papers are organized in topical sections on interactive TV, interactive authoring, personalisation and recommender systems, mobile TV, social TV, new TV environments, iTV architectures and systems, user interfaces and interaction design, user studies, and accessibility.


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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Commenced Publication in 1973 Founding and Former Series Editors: Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, and Jan van Leeuwen Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany 5066 Manfred Tscheligi Marianna Obrist Artur Lugmayr (Eds.) Changing Television Environments 6th European Conference, EuroITV 2008 Salzburg, Austria, July 3 - 4, 2008 Proceedings 13 Volume Editors Manfred Tscheligi Marianna Obrist University of Salzburg ICT&S Center, Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18 5020 Salzburg, Austria E-mail: {manfred.tscheligi; marianna.obrist}@sbg.ac.at Artur Lugmayr Tampere University of Technology (TUT) NAMU Lab., P.O. Box 553/Korkeakoulunkatu 1 33101 Tampere, Finland E-mail: [email protected]fi Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for CR Subject Classification (1998): H.5, H.4, H.3, I.3, I.7, J.5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13 0302-9743 3-540-69477-3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-69477-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springer.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 12323289 06/3180 543210 Preface Since the time when interactive television emerged as a medium for the home environment, it has been permanently evolving. Changing requirements and user behavior, e.g., the demand for being mobile and