---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video EuroITV2010 - "web.sharing.tv.content " June 9th-11th, Tampere, Finland, http://www.euroitv2010.org/ Call for Papers, Targeted Workshops, Workshops, Tutorials, and 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 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 issues - first deadlines approaching! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the content creation community. In addition to previous years' topics of the conference, EuroITV 2010 offers new opportunities this year: * INTERACTIVE CONTENT & ARTS TRACK EuroITV 2010 extends its tracks with a new track to explicitly attract the creative media production community dealing with interactive video, 3D cinema, TV program formats, film production, 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 explicitly invites contributions dealing with user-generated content, video in social networking, mashup networks, 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 creators, application developers, and service designers to get awarded by EuroITV. * TARGETED WORKSHOPS We are specifically calling for targeted workshops around the themes mentioned below. In difference to general workshops, targeted workshops shall help us to explore current topics of interest in the community. Targeted workshop contributions will be published within the main proceedings, and the ACM Online Digital Library. . Everything in 3D (e.g. production, interactive content, digital games, 3D-TV, 3D-IPTV, 3D cinema, standards, 3D distribution); . TV and video in emerging countries (e.g. policies, technologies, state-of-the-art, middleware, content models, interactivity in countries such as China, South America, India, Russia); . Content & art for/in TV and video (e.g. interactive art works, tools, production methods, artistic designs, collaborative content, art forms, interactive designs, art collections, interaction methods); . Visual communication for video, film, and TV (e.g. visual language, pervasive communication, semiotics, storyline); . Media management and economics (e.g. patterns of use and engagement, business models, advertising, strategies, sustainability, policy, model of audiences, public service broadcasting, new media and traditional media); . Social media, ambient/ubiquitous media, and digital games in the age of Web 3.0 (e.g. context awareness, next generation user interfaces, personalization, ambient human-computer interaction, hardware/ software, interactive game design for video environments, serious gaming, persuasive games, social media tools, social networks mashups, community design); . Emerging topics around the theme "web.sharing.tv.content" (e.g. visionary - pointing-to-the future topics and issues around the conference theme); IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 work, will follow soon. More details can be found on: http://www.euroitv2010.org/ CONFERENCE TRACKS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year's conference consists of four tracks, each with their own program committee and a separate track chair, coordinated by an overall Program Chair. 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: 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 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 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, privacy, security). Track 3: Media, Social and Economic Studies . Television practices and experiences related to privacy, trust and security . Direct marketing and profiling techniques for interactive TV: personalization and user modeling . Measurability, interactivity and addressability of ITV use and prosumption . Business models, media management, media economics, t-commerce, t- 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, 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 . From mass media to mass self-communication . Transitions in broadcasting industry and policy related to digital 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- 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 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 published by ACM, and be made available in the ACM Digital Library (http://portal.acm.org/). Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for special issues in a journals or books. CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Lusófona, 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 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 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 Fößel, Fraunhofer Institute IIS, GERMANY Content & Art . Tapio Takala, Helsinki Univ. of Technology (HUT), FINLAND . Teijo Pellinen, Univ. of Lapland, FINLAND . Veijo Hietala, FINLAND CONTACT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.euroitv2010.org/ Send any inquiry about the conference to: info@euroitv2010.org To receive updates about the EuroITV2010 Conference, subscribe to the Conference mailing list by subscribing on https://listmail.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/euroitv2010 or sending an email with "subscribe" in the subject to: euroitv2010-request@listmail.tut.fi. Host: EMMi Lab., Department of Business Information Management and Logistics / TUT Tampere (http://www.tut.fi/emmi).