EuroITV2009 - 7th European Interactive Television Conference 3, 4 and 5 June in Leuven, Belgium Early registration for EuroITV2009 has been extended until 20 April 2009, in order to allow workshop and iTV in industry participants to benefit from the reduced fee. The registration form can be accessed from the following page: http://www.euroitv2009.org/registration.html The organization of EuroITV2009 is in full progress, and most of the programme has already been filled. We are proud to announce three diverse and excitingkeynote speakers: - The Connected Home redefines the TV experience by Jan Van Bogaert (Alcatel-Lucent) - The Internet Revolution Will Be Televised by Rich Ezekiel (Yahoo! Connected TV) - Needs, emotions, experience! by Prof. Dr. Marc Hassenzahl (Folkwang University Essen) The following tutorials will be held on Wednesday 3 June 2009: - User Experience in TV-centric Services: What to consider in the Design and Evaluation? - Standardized IPTV services in Managed IP Infrastructures - Ambient Media - How to create an iDTV campaign - Designing and Evaluating the Sociability of Interactive Television On the EuroITV2009 website you can find more details about the current status of the programme, including the three keynote presentations, four workshops, five tutorials, 15 academic full papers and 21 academic short papers. The accepted posters, demos, doctoral consortium papers and iTV in Industry papers will be available on the website soon, and we are still expecting submissions for the Arts Exhibition (deadline 10 April). For more details, see: http://www.euroitv2009.org/ The detailed programme, including the schedule of the different sessions, will be available around mid-April. Conference Organizing Committee: General Chair: Prof. Dr. Dirk De Grooff (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) Program Chairs: David Geerts (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) and Pablo Cesar (CWI, The Netherlands) Tutorials Chair: Regina Bernhaupt (University of Salzburg, Austria) Doctoral Consortium Chair: George Lekakos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Demonstration Chairs: Erika Reponen (Nokia, Finland) and Hendrik Knoche (University College London, UK) Short Papers & Posters Chairs: Christof van Nimwegen (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) and Judith Masthoff (University of Aberdeen, UK) Workshop Chairs: Gunnar Harboe (Motorola Labs, USA) and Marianna Obrist (University of Salzburg, Austria) iTV in Industry Chairs: Karin Slegers (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) and Artur Lugmayr (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Arts Chair: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos (Ionian University, Greece) Track Chairs: Lyn Pemberton (University of Brighton, UK), Jo Pierson (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) and Cristian Hesselman (Telematica Institute, The Netherlands) Program Committee: http://www.euroitv2009.org/committees.html#program Contact: For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.euroitv2009.org/ Send any inquiry about the conference to: info@euroitv2009.org To receive updates about the EuroITV2009 Conference, subscribe to the Conference mailing list on this page: http://www.euroitv2009.org/mailinglist.php Host: Centre for User Experience Research (CUO), IBBT / K.U.Leuven (http://soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/cuo/) EuroITV2009 is made possible by the following sponsors and partners: Zappware, IBBT, Philips (gold sponsors), Nokia, Ruwido (bronze sponsors), InformITV, ITVT, UITV.info, Interaction-design.org, Informatics Europe (media partners). It is organized in cooperation with EuroITV, ACM, SIGMM, SIGWEB, SIGCHI and IFIP. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm for more information. Jo Pierson, Ph.D. IBBT - SMIT, Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication Vrije Universiteit Brussel Offices: Pleinlaan 9, 2nd floor B - 1050 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 2 629 16 27 Fax: +32 2 629 17 00 E-mail: jo.pierson@vub.ac.be http://smit.vub.ac.be