Tutorial #15

Interactive Television: A New Challenge for HCI

Barbee E. Teasley, Arnold Lund, Raymond Bennett, Ameritech

Sunday, April 14, full-day

Benefits

You will learn about the newly emerging and fast moving field of interactive television (ITV). You will leave the tutorial with a basic grounding in the fundamentals of ITV, including an overview of the WHY (customer needs, current players, and motivations), WHAT (basic platform considerations), and HOW (beginnings of an HCI/ITV discipline) of interactive television.

Origins

This tutorial is new for CHI 96.

Features

forces driving the development of ITV
characteristics, strengths, and limitations of platforms to support ITV
development environment, current challenges, and future challenges in designing ITV applications
how designing for ITV differs from designing for other domains

Audience

This tutorial is designed for HCI professionals who are interested in learning more about the field of interactive television.

Presentation

Lecture and hands-on design exercise.

Instructors

Barbee Teasley is an engineer in the Human Factors group at Ameritech. She has been working on ITV for over a year, especially on the issue of user interface guidelines for application development. Arnold Lund is manager of the Customer Interface Systems and Human Factors Department at Ameritech. He has over 15 years of experience in telecommunications R&D and is an active member of the ANSI-200 HCI standards committee. His department provides HCI support for Ameritech's ITV and internet initiatives. Ray Bennett was on the faculty of New College, Lehigh University, and the University of Illinois before joining AT&T Bell Labs in 1978, where he did exploratory work on advanced telephony, broadband networks and ITV. In 1992, Ray left Bell Labs as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff to join Ameritech where he continues to work on ITV.

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