Workshop CHI2006

Investigating new user experience challenges in iTV: mobility & sociability

Introduction

Call for papers

Workshop Program

Accepted papers

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Special Interest Group

Workshop/SIG results

Related Special Interest Group (SIG):
Mobile iTV: new challenges for the design of
pervasive multimedia systems

Tuesday, 25 April, 11:30-13:00

This SIG is thematically connected to the workshop titled ‘Investigating New User Experience Challenges in iTV: Mobility and Sociability’. The workshop will be a formally structured platform to share experiences and points of view on late breaking research practices - such as ethnographic praxis in industry and academia - focused on the user experience in pervasive interactive television (iTV).

On the other hand, the SIG will have a more informal approach with a rather exploratory objective with a fairly futuristic timeframe. It aims to create a provocative framework to generate debate around new challenges and trends for the design of future pervasive multimedia systems.

The SIG organizers will facilitate discussion around the following interrelated emerging concerns:

• Novel sociality issues for cross-media applications requiring strong collaboration and interaction between users across traditionally personal interfaces (such as handhelds).
• Incoming usability challenges and future interaction design issues such as new interfaces, interaction modalities and forms of smart content including tangible computing and other digital-physical hybrids.
• New paradigms in context awareness in intelligent environments beyond the traditional taxonomy of context (user model, physical, system and temporal).
• Controversial evolutions and trends such as a potential 'utterly controlled society’ (as in Aldous Huxley's book 'Brave New World') and cross-media applications in nano and biotechnology, etc.
• Original contributions from diverse disciplines (art, design, sociology, anthropology, biology, etc) for unveiling the user experience in prospected scenarios of mobile & pervasive iTV.

The main outcome will be the prediction of some credible and relevant usage scenarios for future pervasive interactive television and pervasive multimedia systems in general. It will also aim to establish some guidelines to start a common research agenda in the area.

Planned timeline for the SIG session

• Presentation of the SIG goals and topics (10 mins)
• Introduction of participants (10 mins)
• Interactive debate with participants on the research topics introduced (50 mins)
• Summary of the topics and discussion on future actions and how to create a common background in this area among those interested (20 mins)

Audience

This SIG is of interest of practitioners as well as researchers interested in the area of pervasive computing, cross-media and multimedia. This includes managers of HCI projects working in the iTV, cinema, web and mobile industry (telecom companies, device manufacturers, broadcasters, service and content providers, etc.); new media ‘oracles’, industrial designers; customer experience managers, user experience architects; human factors practitioners academics, researchers and students with interests the futures of human computer interaction; designers in general and new trends consultants.

More information can be found in the SIG Extended Abstract.