Wednesday 2nd April - Optional Tutorials
From 12.30 Registration at Watts Building, University of Brighton
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch for workshop participants
2.00 - 5.00 Afternoon Tutorial
Tutorial 2: Usability Evaluation
Tutorial 3: Interactive Television: a commercial overview
7.00 - 9.00 Reception at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
Thursday 3rd April
From 8.30 Registration at Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton
9.30 - 10.30 Opening Session
Dr John Taylor, Head of the School of Computing, Maths and Information Sciences, University of Brighton
Sir Michael Checkland, Chair of the University of Brighton's Board of Governors and former Director General of the BBC.
Richard Daws, Co-founder and chairman of Victoria Real UK
11.00- 1.00
Leena Eronen, Helsinki University of Technology - User Centered Research for Interactive Television
Sheri Lamont, Microsoft, USA - Case Study: Successful Adoption of a User-Centered Design Approach During the Development of an Interactive Television Application
Jonathan Freeman & Jane Lessiter, Goldsmiths College, London - Using attitude based segmentation to better understand viewer's usability issues with digital and interactive tv.Poster Introductions
Manuel José Damásio, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon - Uses of interactive television in educational settings: evaluating the media impact
Menuka Gupta & Kai Hütteman, Fraunhofer Institut Medienkommunikation, Germany - Education with interactiveTV
Davide Carboni et al., CSR4 Italy - Deployment of platform independent services on interactiveTV
Mark Rice, University of Brighton, Assessibility Issues for Visually Impaired Viewers
2.00 - 3.30 Practitioners' Panel
Jenni Lloyd, Brighton - Interactive Ads: a New Approach
Sepideh Chakaveh et al., Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Germany - Interactive Political TV
Tom Moore, Dublin - Interactive Kids TV
Sheri Lamont, Microsoft, US - An Eight-Step Process for Designing Compelling Enhanced Television
Peter J Bates, PJB Associates - Towards interactive personalised learning
4.00 - 4.45
Tim French, Luton University & Mark Springett, Middlesex University, U.K. - Developing novel interactiveTV applications: a user centric analysis
Sile O'Modhrain & Ian Oakley, Media Lab Europe, Dublin - Touch TV: Adding feeling to broadcast media
4.45 -17.30 Alternative Voice
David Burke, White Dot, UK - author of Spy TV, a critical look at the digital TV revolution - who's it overthrowing?
7.00 onwards Drinks and dinner at Komedia/Curve
Friday 4th April
9.15 - 10.00 Keynote speaker: Stuart Nolan, Needlework TV.
10.30- 12.00
Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, George Lekakos & Diomidis Spinellis, eLTRUN, Athens University of Economics & Business - The Virtual Channel Model for Personalized Television
Gulden Uchyigit & Keith Clark, Imperial College, London - Personalised multi-modal electronic program guide
Petri Lankoski & I. Ekman, Hypermedia Laboratory, University of Tampere - Integrating a multi-user game with dramatic narrative for interactive television
1.00- 2.00
Suzanne Stein, Canadian Film Centre - Experiments in Narrative: Canadian Situations and Findings
Bernard Wozny, Liberate - Workflow Tools for Interactive TV Content: the EDICT project
P. Asiala, Media Lab, University of Art & Design, Helsinki - Telephone Man: a TV-based Interactive Game
2.30 - 4.00
John Gill & Sylvie Perera, Royal National Institute for the Blind - Accessible Universal Design of Interactive Digital Television
Thomas Bjoerner, Aalborg University - The early interactive audience of a regional TV station in Denmark
Célia Quico, TV Cabo, Portugal - Are communication services the killer application for interactive TV? Or: "I left my wife because I am in love with the TV set"
Sir Michael Checkland: Welcome Session, Thursday 3rd April
Sir Michael Checkland became Director-General on 26 February 1987. He joined the BBC in 1964. In July 1985 he became Deputy Director-General with responsibility for Resource Management throughout the Corporation. He was also responsible for the BBC's commercial activities (he was a Director of BBC Enterprises) and had specific responsibilties for Engineering, Finance and Personnel. He was knighted in New Year's Honours in 1992.
Richard Daws: Welcome Session, Thursday 3rd April
Co-founder and Chairman of Victoria Real UK, Richard initiated the Victoria Real Australian operation in 2000. A Chartered Engineer with an entrepreneurial bent, he has worked on ground breaking media projects since 1994. His company has picked up numerous awards, including fastest growing UK private company. Richard personally picked up the Emmy Award for Outstanding Editing in LA, 1998 and Won the Vision Vote (Who Owns the Future of TV) at the Edinburgh TV Festival, 2000. He currently divides his time between the two Victoria Real operations.
Stuart Nolan: Friday 4 April, 9.30
Stuart Nolan is the founder of NeedleworkTV, a company set up to cultivate links between the Interactive TV industry and academia in order to develop and deliver training in Interactive TV. He is a consultant on Interactive TV to a number of companies and was previously Interactive TV Consultant for Oyster Partners. Stuart has been working in Interactive TV since the mid 90s and has produced enhanced versions of over 20 commercial TV shows.
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