Intelligent user interfaces in the living room: usability design for personalized television applications

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to present our experience from the design of a personalized television application, and the implications for the design of interactive television applications in general. Personalized advertising is a gentle introduction to interactive television applications through a push paradigm that is closer to the established patterns of television use. While personalization is a practice widely used on the Internet, applying personalization techniques over digital television infrastructures presents significant obstacles, which we address with explicit design moves

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
      H.1.2 User/Machine Systems
          Subjects: Human factors

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.2 Information Storage
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Clustering
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems
          Subjects: Video (e.g., tape, disk, DVI)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Screen design (e.g., text, graphics, color); Interaction styles (e.g., commands, menus, forms, direct manipulation); Prototyping; Input devices and strategies (e.g., mouse, touchscreen); User-centered design

  J. Computer Applications
  J.1 ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING
      Subjects: Marketing; Business
  J.4 SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
      Subjects: Economics; Psychology
  J.7 COMPUTERS IN OTHER SYSTEMS
      Subjects: Consumer products

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
advertising, digital television, personalization, usability