Call for Papers
Position papers are invited on different aspects of social television: interactive television features that specifically support social uses of television (such as communication features).
The workshop will include thematically organized short presentations, followed by group discussions, and a design exercise to create a novel social interactive television concept.
Submissions are invited on the following topics (not limitative):
- defining new and emerging social television program genres
- considering different types of social television systems
- technological challenges to implement social features on interactive television
- exploring new methodologies and techniques to design social interfaces
- understanding and supporting sociability in interactive television
- evaluating the sociability of social interactive television
- exploring the home context in which social interactive television will be used
- the impact of social interactive television on the user experience
- building communities through social interactive television
- building a multidisciplinary research community around the topic
This workshop seeks to address these issues by bringing together researchers and practitioners from different domains, but with the same interest in social interactive television. We will select participants with diverse backgrounds based upon the relevance, insightfulness, and originality of their submissions.
Expected participants
The workshop is intended for practitioners as well as researchers who have done work related to social television.
This includes:
- Project managers working in the iTV industry (telecom companies, device manufacturers, broadcasters, service and content providers, etc.)
- Industrial designers
- HCI practitioners
- Interface evaluators and testers
- HCI academics, researchers and students with interests in interactive television
- Social scientists with interests in new technologies
- Designers in general and new trends consultants
No particular skills are required.
Participation
Submissions are expected in the form of two-page position papers, describing the area of research, specific work (empirical or theoretical) on the workshop topic and the innovative character of the research at hand.
Candidates are encouraged to argue a clear position on a question relevant to the subject of the workshop. The submissions should be sent via the submission tool on this website. Authors should follow the adjunct proceedings templates (word; pdf)
General enquiries about the workshop can be sent to any of the workshop organizers i.e. David Geerts (david.geerts@soc.kuleuven.be), Gunnar Harboe (gunnar.harboe@motorola.com) or Noel Massey (noel.massey@motorola.com).
Deadlines
- February 7th, 2007: Workshop submission deadline
- March 1st, 2007: Feedback to authors
- March 15th, 2007: Submission of camera-ready papers
- May 23d, 2007: Workshop at EuroITV2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
