Pervasive iTV and Creative Networked Multimedia Systems

2010 ◽  
pp. 707-716
Author(s):  
Anxo Cereijo Roibás ◽  
Stephen Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Interactive Television ◽  
Future Trend ◽  
Multimedia Systems ◽  
Interactive System ◽  
Interactive Games ◽  
Networked Multimedia ◽  
Broadcast Programs

This article presents a research project carried out at the BT Mobility Research Center with the aim of developing appropriate applications for pervasive iTV, paying special attention to the personal and social contextual usage of this media within the entertainment, work, and government environments. It prospects a future trend in the use of pervasive interactive multimedia systems in future communications scenarios for mobile and pervasive iTV, that is, the use of handhelds as interfaces to extend and enhance the TV experience outside the home boundaries. The new scenarios discussed in this article are based on the assumption that mobile phones interconnected with other surrounding interfaces (e.g., iTV, PCs, PDAs, in-car-navigators, smart-house appliances, etc.), will be decisive in the creation of pervasive interactive multimedia systems. With its recent development into becoming an interactive system, TV seems to increasingly replace traditional “passive” TV platforms through active viewers-participation (Lamont & Afshan, 1999). Moreover, interactive television gives viewer the opportunity to extend their UX of television for activities that currently occur more typically on the Web (Steemers, 1998). These activities are consequent to the enhanced communication possibilities that have been enabled by new media: users can browse information, personalize their viewing choices, play interactive games, carry out e-commerce activities (shopping, banking, voting, etc.), and play increasingly active roles in broadcast programs (to the extent of interacting with other viewers).

Pervasive iTV and Creative Networked Multimedia Systems

2009 ◽  
pp. 1154-1161
Author(s):  
Anxo Cereijo Roibás ◽  
Stephen Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Interactive Television ◽  
Future Trend ◽  
Multimedia Systems ◽  
Interactive System ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
Interactive Games ◽  
The One

This article presents a research project carried out at the BT Mobility Research Center with the aim of developing appropriate applications for pervasive iTV, paying special attention to the personal and social contextual usage of this media within the entertainment, work, and government environments. It prospects a future trend in the use of pervasive interactive multimedia systems in future communications scenarios for mobile and pervasive iTV, that is, the use of handhelds as interfaces to extend and enhance the TV experience outside the home boundaries. The new scenarios discussed in this article are based on the assumption that mobile phones interconnected with other surrounding interfaces (e.g., iTV, PCs, PDAs, in-car-navigators, smart-house appliances, etc.), will be decisive in the creation of pervasive interactive multimedia systems. With its recent development into becoming an interactive system, TV seems to increasingly replace traditional “passive” TV platforms through active viewers- participation (Lamont & Afshan, 1999). Moreover, interactive television gives viewers the opportunity to extend their UX of television for activities that currently occur more typically on the Web (Steemers, 1998). These activities are consequent to the enhanced communication possibilities that have been enabled by new media: users can browse information, personalize their viewing choices, play interactive games, carry out e-commerce activities (shopping, banking, voting, etc.), and play increasingly active roles in broadcast programs (to the extent of interacting with other viewers). At the same time, recent technological developments in handsets have converted them into tools for creation, editing, and diffusion of multimedia content. The last mobile phones are equipped with large screen, color display, photo and video camera, and with functionalities as MMS, video call, image, sound, and video editing software. As an intrinsic characteristic of these interfaces, all these operations can be done in any place, time, and environment. This freedom of action can lead to scenarios of pervasive multimedia interaction. In fact, a nomadic generation of users will benefit from pervasive interactive multimedia systems on many levels, not only by merely having access to TV broadcast on their handhelds or playing active roles in interacting with TV programs. The most challenging aspect of iTV is indeed the creativity and the one-to-one connectivity that this medium can enable. This attribute will allow users to become “multimedia-content producers”: They will create content in multimedia formats and share it with others. This research attempts to identify the mutual influence between technology and society. This phenomenon is particularly evident with social technology designed to integrate into household routines. Making effective predictions about new technology requires exploring the critical disconnections between the ways in which such technologies are produced and the ways in which they are consumed, or rejected (Fischer, 1992; Lee & Lee, 1995).

Service enabling platforms for networked multimedia systems

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 1533-1536 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.J. Hutchison ◽  
G. Pacifici ◽  
B. Plattner ◽  
R. Stadler ◽  
J. Sventek
Keyword(s):  
Multimedia Systems ◽  
Networked Multimedia

The "Digitalisation" of Youth

2011 ◽  
pp. 345-373
Author(s):  
Pedro Quelhas Brito
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Young People ◽  
New Media ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Commercial Communication

The digitalization of youth signifies their complete immersion, active participation and involvement in the production, consumption and sharing of digital content using various interconnected/interfaced digital devices in their social network interactions. A prerequisite to successful commercial communication with young people is having a good understanding of new media, along with their social and psychological framework. The behaviour, motivation and emotions of youth in general and in relation to digital technologies, especially the meaning attached to mobile phones, the Internet (mainly social network sites) and games (computer-based and portable) should also be addressed if advertisers aim to reach this target group.

A Conceptual Architecture for the Development of Interactive Educational Media

2006 ◽  
pp. 101-121
Author(s):  
Claus Pahl
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Multimedia Systems ◽  
Multimedia Technology ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Online Setting ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
Educational Perspective ◽  
And Training

Learning is more than knowledge acquisition; it often involves the active participation of the learner in a variety of knowledge- and skills-based learning and training activities. Interactive multimedia technology can support the variety of interaction channels and languages required to facilitate interactive learning and teaching. A conceptual architecture for interactive educational multimedia can support the development of such multimedia systems. Such an architecture needs to embed multimedia technology into a coherent educational context. A framework based on an integrated interaction model is needed to capture learning and training activities in an online setting from an educational perspective, to describe them in the human-computer context, and to integrate them with mechanisms and principles of multimedia interaction.

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