The special theme for the EuroITV 2008 conference is:
"Changing Television Environments"
We welcome submissions that address interactive TV with special emphasis on:
- Changing TV contexts and new entertainment environments
- Changing user behaviours, user experiences and needs
- Changing TV technologies and production environments
- Changing TV towards new content formats
- Changing services and business models
Conference host is the HCI & Usability Unit, ICT&S Center of the University of Salzburg (http://www.icts.uni-salzburg.ac.at)
The Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society (ICT&S) is established as independent inter-faculty research and study center within the University of Salzburg to drive interdisciplinary work and activities. The central vision is to face the challenges of the interrelationship between technology and society on several levels (from the individual level to the organizational level and the societal level as a whole) and deliver interdisciplinary solutions for the fields of business, technology, science, and policy. The ICT&S Center offers a framework towards building inter- and trans-disciplinary relationships applicable to the challenges of the upcoming information and knowledge based society. It's the ICT&S Center's philosophy to explicitly focus on the problems where individual disciplines are reaching their limits.
The Human-Computer Interaction & Usability Unit deals with specific questions related to design, development, and evaluation of existing and emerging interaction systems and interaction environments. In particular HCI & Usability Unit studies and develops enhanced forms of user experience, is engaged in studying and developing new interaction paradigms, studies, develops and applies interdisciplinary methods and tools for experience centered design, studies different interaction contexts and enhance them by optimized experiences and applies user centered methodologies towards innovative and optimized applications. Staff members (currently 14 people) with various interdisciplinary backgrounds e.g. computer science, psychology, communication science, design and information management are working on the following research priorities: Mobile Interfaces, Emotional Interfaces, Ambient Interfaces, Social Interfaces, Advanced Interaction Techniques, Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Usability and User Experience Methods and Tools, User Experience and Contextual Interfaces (in particular also the context home). A radical new Usability and Interaction Experimentation Lab is available to study various interaction situations (beyond the limits of common usability labs facilities).