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Interactive TV made Easy
StumbleUponThis course aims to introduce participants to the latest research on interactive television and how the broader digital design community can contribute more easily to iTV service creation. The course includes a FREE introduction to the iTV creation toolset, SATSUMA.
This course aims to introduce participants to the latest research on interactive television and how the broader digital design community can contribute more easily to iTV service creation. The course includes a FREE introduction to the iTV creation toolset, SATSUMA.
DAY ONE: Interactive TV – What do users want, how can these desires be turned into reality and how can the broader digital design community contribute more easily to iTV service creation?
This day long activity has three main components. Firstly there will be a presentation and discussion of the results of a study that went into peoples’ homes to discover their hopes, aspirations and frustrations with iTV and its associated technology. This will be followed by an analysis of the study with particular emphasis of its implications in terms of service design, business models and regulation, user interface design and the relationship between these results and those of other studies. Secondly there will be a demonstration of prototype iTV user interfaces and services that have been designed in response to the initial study, followed by the results of the user testing of these prototypes. Finally there will be a session introducing new technology that helps professionals in the digital media industries to grow into developing iTV services in an accessible and designer-friendly way.
DAY TWO (FREE): SATSUMA a new iTV creation toolset for designer friendly, highly efficient service creation.
Day two is aimed at both professionals in TV / iTV industries and those involved in broader digital design fields who are interested in applying their talents to the rapidly expanding area of interactive television. Firstly it will demonstrate in depth the innovative service design and creation process used in the iTV services presented in day one. Secondly it will go through the process of iTV design and creation using a live worked example with particular emphasis on how designers can create iTV service simulations and translate these into fully fledged iTV services without the need for a software engineer to re-create the service from first principles. This semi-automatic translation of simulations into ready-to-broadcast services also represents a very efficient alternative to the conventional authoring process for broadcasters in addition to those looking to move in to the iTV field.
Who should attend:
This event is aimed at those working in the area of interactive
TV (service creation, coding, program making, commissioning and
producing) and equally those who would like a better
understanding of iTV in a user and technical context with a view
to applying their talents in this new area of digital media.
This could include the creative digital media sector (web
designers, interaction designer, experience architects, creative
and art directors). Equally this event will be beneficial to
individuals in linear broadcasting who are aware that after 2012
elements of interactive TV will become ubiquitous and want to
understand this process from both a user and technical
perspective.
Why attend:
- Access to pilot research data on viewer-iTV interaction.
- Presentation of “From prototype to final product” iTV services-applications authoring tools.
- A unique opportunity to network with specialists from all the spectra of digital media, the web and broadcasting.
About the speakers
Annette Hill
Annette Hill is Director of Research, School of Media, Arts and
Design, and Professor of Media. She is the author of Shocking
Entertainment: Viewer Response to Violent Movies (1997),
co-author of TV Living: Television, Audiences and Everyday Life
(with David Gauntlett 1999), as well as a variety of articles on
audiences and popular culture. She is the co-editor (with Robert
C Allen) of the Routledge Television Studies Reader (2003) and
author of Reality TV: Audiences and Popular Factual Television
(Routledge 2004).
Peter Goodwin
Peter Goodwin is Chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass
Communication. His research interests include political economy
of the media, and digital television. His publications include
Television under the Tories: Broadcasting Policy 1979-1997
(1999), as well as a variety of articles in books and journals,
such as Javnost.
Kaoruko Kondo
Kaoruko Kondo is a research fellow at University of Westminster
CAMRI. Her PhD thesis is on Media Consumption and Everyday Life:
Japanese Children in London (completed in 2005).Her research
interests are the area of audiences, children and the media, and
diasporic media.
Tim Reagan
Tim has been working for Microsoft Research, initially at
Redmond USA and then at the Microsoft Research centre in
Cambridge in the Social Computing Group dedicated to user
centered development and rapid prototyping of new user
interfaces design and systems.
Leon Cruickshank
Leon Cruickshank is a lecturer and researcher in multimedia and
broadcast media concentrating on the interface between
technology and user centred service and interface design at
Brunel University. Funded by both the EU and nationally in the
UK, he has worked on a number of projects exploring the
exploitation of the latest broadcast technology to enable the
creation of iTV services that are demand rather than technology
led.
John Cosmas
John Cosmas is a Professor of Multimedia Systems and became a
Member (M) of IEEE in 1987 and a Member of IEE in 1977. His
research interests are concerned with the design, delivery and
management of new fourth-generation TV and telecommunications
services and networks, multimedia content and databases, and
video/image processing. He has contributed towards eight EEC
research projects and has published over 80 papers in refereed
conference proceedings and journals. He leads the Networks and
Multimedia Communications Centre within the School of
Engineering and Design at Brunel University.
Emmanuel Tsekleves
Emmanuel Tsekleves is a Lecturer in Multimedia Design and
Technology course in the Engineering and Design School at Brunel
University. His PhD Thesis was on the semi-automated creation
tools for the production of iTV services. Emmanuel has
contributed towards the EU-funded project INSTINCT and the
WestFocus project UITS in the design of user interfaces and
development of multimedia TV applications and tools. He research
interests lay in the area of multimedia service creation
technologies for broadcast and broadband networks.
Roger Whitham
Roger Whitham is an interaction/user experience designer
specialising in user-centric R&D. Roger has commercial
experience in large-scale UI projects for web agencies such as
Lightmaker and Box. A strong advocate of iterative design, Roger
specialises in designing and creating flexible prototypes to
allow rapid testing and development cycles. Roger is currently a
PhD student at Brunel University after graduating with a first
class degree from Brunel in 2005. Roger's research is
focused on HCI and design with interests ranging from handheld
devices to global computer interaction models.
For Further Information Contact:
Leon.Cruickshank@brunel.ac.uk
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