Flickr Group EuroITV 2012

Checkout EuroITV 2012 Flickr Stream: http://www.flickr.com/groups/euroitv2012/

You can find information about EuroITV 2013 here.

Awards given at the conference

Best paper award

Niloofar Dezfuli, Mohammadreza Khalilbeigi, Jochen Huber, Florian Müller and Max Mühlhäuser - PalmRC: Imaginary Palm-based Remote Control for Eyes-free Television Interaction

Best PhD award

Evelien D’Heer - The remediation of Television Consumption: Public audiences and private places

Alex Carmichael award

Jan Bobeth, Susanne Schmehl, Ernst Kruijff, Stephanie Deutsch and Manfred Tscheligi - Evaluating Performance and Acceptance of Older Adults Using Freehand Gestures for TV Menu Control

Grand Challenge winners

1. Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan – CatchPo – Catch real-time TV and share with your friends

2. Yle Finnish Broadcasting Company, Finland - Pikku Kakkonen Magicasts

3. Die Hobrechts & Christoph Drobig, Germany - 3 Regeln (3 Rules)

Find a detalied description of the program and schedule to be held at the Seminaris conference hotel below:

• Wednesday 4th July (pre-conference day and welcome reception)
• Thursday 5th July (conference day I and social event)
• Friday 6th July  (conference day II)

There will be two keynotes:
Janet Murray (Georgia Tech) - Transcending Transmedia: Emerging Story Telling Structures for the Emerging Convergence Platforms
Olga Khroustaleva & Tom Broxton (YouTube) – Supporting an Ecosystem: From the Biting Baby to the Old Spice Man

and sessions that include
17 full papers,
14 short papers,
13 posters,
13 demos,
11 iTV in industry speakers and
6 doctoral consortium presenters.

The 15 entries to the Grand Challenge are online now here.

The pre-conference day (4th July) also includes two tutorials,
Foundations of interactive multimedia content consumption (2/3 day)
Designing Gestural Interfaces for Future Home Entertainment Environments (half-day)
and four full-day workshops:

• UP-TO-US: User-Centric Personalized TV ubiquitOus and secUre Services
• Third International Workshop on Future Television: Making Television more integrated and interactive
• Third Euro ITV Workshop on Interactive Digital TV in Emergent Economies
• Third Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Content Sharing

EuroITV is the leading international conference for media and interaction related to video and television. This year’s theme of “Bridging People, Places and Platforms” focuses on synergies to support current practice and to explore new perspectives – empowering users to interact with content and each other across localities and across various delivery platforms and media.

Researchers and practitioners from all over the world meet to discuss latest advances on media technology, HCI, systems & technology, media studies, and the content creation community. We invite original, high quality papers submissions addressing how digital technologies open up new ways of consumption and interaction with rich-media content. The main conference proceedings will be published by ACM. Selected papers will be short-listed for submission to special edition journals.

This year’s conference consists of three tracks — each with its own program committee and separate track chairs — coordinated by two overall program chairs. Full papers, short papers and posters have to be submitted in one of these tracks, to optimize the review process. If not sure, choose the track, which is closest to the main topic of your submission, and of which you feel that community is most appropriate to review your work.

Track 1: Human-Computer Interaction
Track 2: Media, Social and Economic Studies
Track 3: Systems and Enabling Technologies

Key areas considered are:
- mobility
- interactivity
- systems, prototypes, & designs
- empowerment (control, accessibility, participation and UGC)
- user & content based application systems
- personalization
- social consumption and communication practices.

Full Paper Submissions
21^st January, 2012 (extended)

Short Papers, Posters
4^th March, 2012

Doctoral Consortium, Demos
31^st March, 2012 (extended)

Early Bird Registration deadline
16^th May, 2012

Track 1: Human-Computer Interaction
Track 2: Media, Social and Economic Studies
Track 3: Systems and Enabling Technologies

Paper submissions will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind fashion. The main proceedings will be published by ACM, and be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue in a journal.

Program Chairs
- Hendrik Knoche, EPFL, Switzerland
- Jan Hess, University of Siegen, Germany

Tutorials & Workshop Chairs
- Maria da Graça Pimentel, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Regina Bernhaupt, Ruwido, Austria

Doctoral Consortium Chairs
- Marianna Obrist, University of Newcastle, UK
- George Lekakos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Demonstration Chairs
- Jean-Claude Dufourd, France Telecom
- Lyndon Nixon, STI, Vienna, Austria

iTV in Industry
- Patrick Huber, Sky Germany

Grand Challenge Chair
- Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
- Milena Szafir, Manifesto 21.TV, Brazil

Full Papers – Track Chairs

Track 1: Human-Computer Interaction
- Gunnar Stevens, University of Siegen, Germany
- Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University, Australia

Track 2: Media, Social and Economic Studies
- Célia Quico, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
- Filomena Papa, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma, Italy

Track 3: Systems and Enabling Technologies
- David A. Shamma, Yahoo! Research, USA
- Teresa Chambel, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Sponsors Chair
- Oliver Friedrich, Deutsche Telekom/T-Systems, Germany
- Ajit Jaokar, Futuretext, UK
- Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna, Austria

Publicity Chair
- David Geerts, CUO, IBBT / K.U. Leuven, Belgium
- Robert Seeliger, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

Local Chair
- Robert Kleinfeld, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

Fraunhofer FOKUS supports innovative processes from the original concept to the (pre)product in companies and institutions – amongst others in the fields of telecommunication, automotive engineering, eGovernment and software development. Solutions developed by FOKUS and its partners are tried out, tested and demonstrated in laboratories. With an expertise of more than 20 years, Fraunhofer FOKUS sees itself as a link between university research on the one hand and industry and public administration on the other.

The FOKUS Competence Center Future Applications and Media (FAME) researches and develops in the fields of Rich Media and Convergence in NGN and non-NGN IPTV environments, Human-Centric Applications for multimodal Interaction and multi-device experience, Intelligence Functions as Recommendation Systems and Communitie Services as well as Service Integration and Collaboration for mobile middleware solutions and mashup services. The knowledge about those environments, preferences, and situation is taken into account to offer a suitable added-value to the user in simplifying and improving the interaction with computer systems.