-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CfP: 5th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2007 Datum: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:25:04 +0100 Von: Rauterberg, G.W.M. G.W.M.Rauterberg@tue.nl An: icec@listserver.tue.nl

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 24-25, 2007 Sponsored by CWI In-Cooperation with ACM (SIGMM, SIGCHI, and SIGWEB) Co-organized by IFIP TC14

Paper submission will be peer-reviewed. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer LNCS. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue in a journal. A selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of ACM Computers in Entertainment (http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/).

Final Call for Papers Following on from previous conferences, the steering committee of EuroITV has decided to hold the 5th European Interactive TV conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. EuroITV brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that include human-computer interaction, media studies, computer science, telecommunications, audiovisual design and management. The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality papers addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings.

Special Theme The special theme for the EuroITV 2007 conference is: "Interactive TV: a shared experience" We welcome submissions that address interactive TV with a focus on the following emerging research and practice issues: - Shared TV: sociability, playability, emotional design - Shared Home: cross-media, home media station, smart home - Shared Distribution: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, mobile TV - Shared Content: recommendations, end-user annotations - Shared Communications: instant messaging, video conferencing

Important Dates Full and short papers Submissions December 15, 2006 Courses and workshops Proposals November 1, 2006 Doctoral consortium, Videos, demos, panels January 26, 2007 Research in progress February 17, 2007

Keynote speakers: "Interactive Media: Shared Experiences in the Extended Home Environment" Maddy Janse; Philips Research, The Netherlands

"Interactive Television in Brazil: System Software and the Digital Divide" Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares; PUC-RIO, Brazil

"The Future of Entertainment Computing" Matthias Rauterberg; Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Workshops: "Social Interactive Television" Duration: Half day (5 hours) Organizers: David Geerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Gunnar Harboe, Motorola Labs, US Noel Massey, Motorola Labs, US

"Personalization in iTV" Duration: Half day (5 hours) Organizers: Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Pieter Bellekens, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Zeljko Obrenovic, CWI, The Netherlands

"The Future of Television: Ambient Entertainment and Interactive TV" Duration: Session (3 hours) Organizers: Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany

"Interactive Applications for Mobile TV" Duration: Session (3 hours) Organizers: Johan Lilius, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Petri Vuorimaa, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Tutorials: "Shape shifted TV: Authoring and delivering new forms of interactive TV" Duration: Full day (6 hours) Organizers: Marian F. Ursu, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London, UK Ian Kegel, BT, UK Doug Williams, BT, UK

"User-generated Content - a Mega-trend in the New Media Landscape" Duration: Half day (3 hours) Organizer: Jens F. Jensen, Aalborg Univesity, Denmark

"Modern Techniques in Professional Film & TV Productions" Duration: Session (2 hours) Organizer: Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

"Introduction to iTV: State of the Art and Future Directions" Duration: Session (2 hours) Organizers: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany Pablo Cesar, CWI, The Netherlands

Final Call for Papers, we invite - Full and short papers - Demos, videos - Proposals for doctoral consortium

Submissions guidelines are available in the webpage of the conference (http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007).

Topics Your contributions on any aspect of interactive TV are invited. Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics: - Authoring, production, content enrichment, and annotations - Business models, media management, media economics - 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) - Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL) - Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology - Personalization, user modelling, intelligent user interfaces - Usability, accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction - Ethical, regulatory and policy issues - Ambient intelligence - Audience research - P2P broadcast - Mobile TV - VR systems, 3DTV - t-commerce, t-learning - Entertainment computing - Meta-data - Television content modelling - Games, betting, play-along game shows

Organizing Committee General Chair: P. Cesar, CWI Conference co-chairs: K. Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar J. Jensen, Aalborg University Doctoral colloquium chair: J. Masthoff, University of Aberdeen Work in progress chair: L. Pemberton, Brighton University Demonstration chairs: B. Gammon, BBC New Media M. Howell, BBC New Media Workshops chairs: L. Ardissono, University of Torino A. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology Tutorials chairs: B. Bushoff, Sagasnet C. Peng, VTT Treasurer D.G.C. Broekhuis, CWI

Program Committee S. Agamanolis, Independent Scholar, USA L. Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy L. Aroyo, Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands L. Barkhuus, University of Glasgow, UK A. Berglund, Linkoping University, Sweden M. Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA B. Bushoff, Sagasnet, Germany P. Cesar, CWI, the Netherlands K. Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany O. Daly-Jones, Serco Usability Services, UK N. Ducheneaut, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA L. Eronen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland B. Gammon, BBC New Media, UK D. Geerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium D. Goren-Bar, Haifa University, Israel T. Hujanen, University of Tampere, Finland J. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark J. Henriksson, Nokia, Finland C. Klimmt, Hanover University of Music and Drama, Germany H. Knoche, UCL, UK M. Howell, BBC New Media, BBC, UK N. Lee, ACM Computers in Entertainment, USA G. Lekakos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece J. Lilius, Abo Akademi University, Finland P. Looms, Danish Broadcasting, Denmark R. Luckin, University of Sussex, UK A. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland J. Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, Scotland M. Pagani, Bocconi University, Italy J. Pazos, University of Vigo, Spain L. Pemberton, Brighton University, UK C. Peng, VTT, Finland J.A. Pouwelse, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands R.P. Picard, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden R. Puijk, Lillehammer University College, Norway C. Quico, TV Cabo, Portugal B. Rao, Polytechnic University, USA T. Rasmussen, Aalborg University, Denmark M. Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands B. Shen, HP Labs, USA L.F.G. Soares, PUC-RIO, Brazil J. Stewart, University of Edinburgh, UK G. Uchyigit, Imperial College London, UK P. Vuorimaa, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland J. Yagnik, Google Research, USA Z. Yu, Nagoya University, Japan

Social Events and Excursions Social events will be arranged during the conference. Contact For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007 Send your contributions and any inquiry about the conference to: euroitvinfo(at)cwi.nl

Host CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science (http://www.cwi.nl)

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