Personalized Digital Television: Targeting Programs to Individual Viewers

E.H. Chi9781402005893, 1-4020-0589-X

TV viewers today are exposed to overwhelming amounts of information, and challenged by the plethora of interactive functionality provided by current set-top boxes. To ensure broad adoption of this technology by consumers, future Digital Television will have to take usability issues thoroughly into account. In particular, serious attention must be paid to facilitate the selection of content on an individual basis, and to provide easy-to-use interfaces that satisfy viewers’ interaction requirements.This volume collects selected research reports on the development of personalized services for Interactive TV. Drawing upon contributions from academia and industry in the US, Europe and Asia, this book represents a comprehensive picture of leading edge research in personalized television.

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Table of contents :
Team DDU……Page 1
Contents……Page 6
Preface……Page 8
Introduction……Page 10
Part 1: Electronic Program Guides……Page 14
1. User Modeling and Recommendation Techniques for Personalized Electronic Program Guides……Page 16
2. TV Personalization System. Design of a TV Show Recommender Engine and Interface……Page 40
3. Case-Studies on the Evolution of the Personalized Electronic Program Guide……Page 66
4. Interactive Television Personalization. From Guides to Programs……Page 86
5. Group modeling: Selecting a Sequence of Television Items to Suit a Group of Viewers……Page 106
6. Categorization of Japanese TV Viewers Based on Program Genres They Watch……Page 156
Part 2: Broadcast News and Personalized Content……Page 188
7. Personalcasting: Tailored Broadcast News……Page 190
8. Media Augmentation and Personalization through Multimedia Processing and Information Extraction……Page 216
9. ContentMorphing: A Novel System for Broadcast Delivery of Personalizable Content……Page 248
Part 3: ITV User Interfaces……Page 270
10. Designing Usable Interfaces for TV Recommender Systems……Page 272
11. The Time-Pillar World. A 3D Paradigm for the New Enlarged TV Information Domain……Page 300