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[ecrea] 8th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video EuroITV2010

Tue Dec 22 10:41:14 GMT 2009



8th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video EuroITV2010 - =
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June 9th-11th, Tampere, Finland, http://www.euroitv2010.org/

Call for Papers, Targeted Workshops, Workshops, Tutorials, and =20
Industrial Exhibitions

News
-       Workshop deadline extended till 6th December 2009
-       Tutorial deadline extended till 15th January 2010

New in EuroITV:
-       4 tracks: interactive content & arts, HCI, technology, and media =
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studies
-       video and TV in the age of Web 3.0.
-       EuroITV competition grand challenge
-       targeted and themed workshops
-       email list: on =
https://listmail.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/euroitv2010
-       proceedings published within the ACM Digital Library and special =
=20
issues
-       first deadlines approaching!

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EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to =20
video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and
professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and =20
research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the
content creation community. In addition to previous years' topics of =20
the conference, EuroITV 2010 offers new opportunities this year:

* INTERACTIVE CONTENT & ARTS TRACK
  EuroITV 2010 extends its tracks with a new track to explicitly =20
attract the creative media production community dealing with
  interactive video, 3D cinema, TV program formats, film production, =20
and consumers as content creators and contributors.

* VIDEO IN THE AGE OF WEB3.0.
  EuroITV 2010 faces the challenges of TV as changing environment and =20=

explicitly invites contributions dealing with
  user-generated content, video in social networking, mashup networks, =20=

IPTV, cross-media, broadcasting everywhere,
  3D cinema/3D IPTV/3D content, and video.

* EuroITV COMPETITION GRAND CHALLENGE
  EuroITV 2010 also offers a competition opened for artistic content =20
creators, application developers, and service designers
  to get awarded by EuroITV.

* TARGETED WORKSHOPS
  We are specifically calling for targeted workshops around the themes =20=

mentioned below. In difference to general workshops,
  targeted workshops shall help us to explore current topics of =20
interest in the community. Targeted workshop contributions
  will be published within the main proceedings, and the ACM Online =20
Digital Library.

  . Everything in 3D
         (e.g. production, interactive content, digital games, 3D-TV, =20=

3D-IPTV, 3D cinema, standards, 3D distribution);
  . TV and video in emerging countries
         (e.g. policies, technologies, state-of-the-art, middleware, =20
content models, interactivity in countries such as China, South =20
America, India, Russia);
  . Content & art for/in TV and video
         (e.g. interactive art works, tools, production methods, =20
artistic designs, collaborative content, art forms, interactive =20
designs, art collections, interaction methods);
  . Visual communication for video, film, and TV
         (e.g. visual language, pervasive communication, semiotics, =20
storyline);
  . Media management and economics
         (e.g. patterns of use and engagement, business models, =20
advertising, strategies, sustainability, policy, model of audiences, =20
public service broadcasting, new media and traditional media);
  . Social media, ambient/ubiquitous media, and digital games in the =20
age of Web 3.0
         (e.g. context awareness, next generation user interfaces, =20
personalization, ambient human-computer interaction, hardware/=20
software, interactive game design for video environments, serious =20
gaming, persuasive games, social media tools, social networks mashups, =20=

community design);
  . Emerging topics around the theme "web.sharing.tv.content"
         (e.g. visionary - pointing-to-the future topics and issues =20
around the conference theme);


IMPORTANT DATES
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November 30th, 2009: Targeted Workshop Proposals
November 30th, 2009: Tutorials and Workshop Proposals
December 23rd, 2009: Full Paper Submissions
February 07th, 2010: Short Papers, Posters, Doctoral Consortium, Demos
March 21st, 2010:    Industry Exhibitions
April 1st, 2010:     EuroITV Competition Grand Challenge

More information about other sessions, e.g. for business oriented =20
work, will follow soon.
More details can be found on: http://www.euroitv2010.org/

CONFERENCE TRACKS
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This year's conference consists of four tracks, each with their own =20
program committee and a separate track chair, coordinated
by an overall Program Chair. Full papers, short papers and posters =20
have to be submitted in one of these tracks, to optimize
the review process. If not sure, choose the track which is closest to =20=

the main topic of your submission, and of which you feel
that community is most appropriate to review your work.

Track 1: Interactive Content & Arts
Track 2: Human-Computer Interaction
Track 3: Media, Social and Economic Studies
Track 4: Systems and Enabling Technologies


Track 1: Interactive Content & Arts Track
.       Studies of interactive, collaborative content & video
.       Storytelling
.       Digital gaming
.       Role playing
.       Virtual worlds, mixed reality, and bringing video into the world
.       Distributed and networked experience design
.       Immersion
.       Social media in storytelling
.       Ambient media, locative media, cross media formats, and social =
media
.       Artistic and aesthetic uses of interactivity
.       Viewer, player, user, and collaborative co-creator
.       Towards a new form language for video & television
.       Social media utilizing online video as an art form
.       Video and TV genres on interactive platforms and in virtual =
worlds
.       Video and TV as alternate reality games


Track 2: Human-Computer Interaction
.       User-centered design
.       Development and evaluation of iTV systems and services
.       Interaction technologies for interactive TV and cross-media =20
technologies
.       Studies on iTV and media usage
.       Design and evaluation methods for the area of interactive TV
.       Case studies of successful and unsuccessful iTV systems and =20
deployments in terms of usability and user experience
.       Accessibility of iTV services
.       Cross-over media concepts and implementations
.       Investigations on iTV acceptance and related concepts (trust, =20=

privacy, security).

Track 3: Media, Social and Economic Studies
.       Television practices and experiences related to privacy, trust =
and =20
security
.       Direct marketing and profiling techniques for interactive TV: =20=

personalization and user modeling
.       Measurability, interactivity and addressability of ITV use and =20=

prosumption
.       Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, =
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learning
.       Interactive Digital Television and internet-of-things =
applications
.       Audience research, television studies, ethnography, user studies
.       New advertising and revenue models for television
.       User creativity on and via television: Web2.0, social media, =20
community television, user-generated content
.       Ethical, regulatory and policy issues
.       Everyday life practices by family, elderly, youngsters and =
children
.       Digital divide and e-inclusion issues
.       Methods for digital television research and design
.       =46rom mass media to mass self-communication
.       Transitions in broadcasting industry and policy related to =
digital =20
convergence and experience economy

Track 4: Systems and Enabling Technologies
.       Mobile TV
.       Ambient intelligence
.       Social TV
.       Digital content production
.       HDTV and digital cinema
.       Entertainment computing
.       Interactive services (games, betting, game shows)
.       Broadband, IPTV, 3DTV and VR systems
.       Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction
.       Web 2.0
.       Internet TV (P2P TV, Web-based Interactive TV)
.       Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports)
.       Multimedia communication services
.       Video technology (video conferencing, broadcast, video search)
.       Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL)


Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics:

.       Storytelling, role playing, and language for video & TV
.       Virtual worlds, mixed reality, and bringing video into the world
.       Digital gaming, ambient media, social media, and locative media
.       Artistic and aesthetic uses of video & TV technology
.       Beyond the home context, extended home, Mobile TV
.       Ambient intelligence, ambient media environnements
.       Social TV, sociability, usability and user experience
.       Digital content production, HDTV and digital cinema
.       Asset management, metadata and content enrichment
.       Entertainment computing, games, betting, game shows
.       Broadband, IPTV, 3DTV and VR systems
.       Audience research, television studies, ethnography, user studies
.       New advertising and revenue models for television
.       Accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction
.       Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, =
t-=20
learning
.       Web2.0, social media, community television, user-generated =
content
.       Communication services, video conferencing, messaging
.       Content management, digital rights management
.       Interactive storytelling, interactive advertising
.       Electronic program guide, video search, video navigation
.       Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports)
.       Changes in technical requirements and infrastructures =
(ubiquitous =20
and mobile)
.       Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL)
.       Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology
.       Personalization, user modeling, intelligent user interfaces
.       Ethical, regulatory and policy issues
.       Everyday life practices by family, elderly, youngsters and =
children
.       Digital divide and e-inclusion issues
.       Methods for digital television research and design


Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed. The main proceedings will be =20=

published by ACM, and be made available in
the ACM Digital Library (http://portal.acm.org/). Extended versions of =20=

selected papers will be considered for special
issues in a journals or books.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Conference Chairs
. Artur Lugmayr, EMMi Lab., Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), FINLAND
. Petri Vuorimaa, Helsinki Univ. of Technology (HUT), FINLAND
. Pertti Naranen, Tampere Univ. of Applied Sciences (TAMK), FINLAND

Program Chairs
. Celia Quico, Universidade Lus=F3fona, Lisbon, PORTUGAL
. Gunnar Harboe, Motorola, U.S.A

Publicity Chairs
. Erika Reponen, Nokia Research Centre Tampere, FINLAN

EuroITV Competition Grand Challange
o Susanne Sperring, MediaCity, FINLAND
o Robert Strezbowski, Beuth Hochschlue fuer Technik Berlin, GERMANY
o Milena Szafir, BRAZIL

Sponsor Chair
. Pauliina Tuomi, TUT, FINLAND

Tutorials Chair
. Marianna Obrist, HCI & Usability Unit, ICT&S, University of =20
Salzburg, AUSTRIA
. David Geerts, CUO, IBBT / K.U. Leuven, BELGIUM

Doctoral Consortium Chair
. Hendrik Knoche, University College London, UK
. Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, UK

Industrial Exhibition and Demonstration Chairs
. Jussi Pekka Koskiranta, YLE, FINLAND
. Gene Chipman, StreamSage, U.S.A.
. Timo Argillander, Digital Media Finland Oy, FINLAND

Short Papers & Posters Chairs
. Jens Jensen, Aalborg University, DENMARK
. Lyn Pemberton, Brighton University, UK

Workshop Chairs
. Pablo Cesar, CWI, THE NETHERLANDS
. Jari Multisilta, Tampere Univ. of Technology (TUT), Pori, FINLAND

Track chairs
HCI
. Regina Bernhaupt, HCI & Usability Unit, ICT&S, University of =20
Salzburg (A)
. Oliver Friedrich, Fraunhofer Institute, FOKUS, GERMANY

Media Studies
. Jo Pierson, IBBT-SMIT, VUB (B)
. Jaakko Suominen, University of Turku, FINLAND

Technology
. Chengyan Peng, VTT, FINLAND
. Siegfried F=F6=DFel, Fraunhofer Institute IIS, GERMANY

Content & Art
. Tapio Takala, Helsinki Univ. of Technology (HUT), FINLAND
. Teijo Pellinen, Univ. of Lapland, FINLAND
. Veijo Hietala, FINLAND


CONTACT
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For up to date information and further details please visit:
http://www.euroitv2010.org/

Send any inquiry about the conference to:
(info /at/ euroitv2010.org)

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Host:
EMMi Lab., Department of Business Information Management and =20
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