Bibtex 4(2007)17
Semi-Automated Creation of Converged iTV Services: From Macromedia Director Simulations to Services Ready for Broadcast
@article{tc07,
author="Emmanuel Tsekleves and John Cosmas",
title="{S}emi-{A}utomated {C}reation of {C}onverged {iTV} {S}ervices: {F}rom {M}acromedia {D}irector {S}imulations to {S}ervices {R}eady for {B}roadcast",
journal="Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting",
editor = "Jens Herder and Konstantinos Chorianopoulos"
year="2007",
volume="4",
number="17",
month=may,
note="{\tt urn:nbn:de:0009-6-10862}, ISSN 1860-2037",
abstract = "While sound and video may capture viewers’ attention,
interaction can captivate them. This has not been
available prior to the advent of Digital Television. In
fact, what lies at the heart of the Digital Television revolution
is this new type of interactive content, offered
in the form of interactive Television (iTV) services.
On top of that, the new world of converged networks
has created a demand for a new type of converged
services on a range of mobile terminals (Tablet
PCs, PDAs and mobile phones). This paper aims at
presenting a new approach to service creation that allows
for the semi-automatic translation of simulations
and rapid prototypes created in the accessible desktop
multimedia authoring package Macromedia Director
into services ready for broadcast. This is achieved by
a series of tools that de-skill and speed-up the process
of creating digital TV user interfaces (UI) and applications
for mobile terminals.
The benefits of rapid prototyping are essential for
the production of these new types of services, and
are therefore discussed in the first section of this paper.
In the following sections, an overview of the
operation of content, service, creation and management
sub-systems is presented, which illustrates why
these tools compose an important and integral part of a
system responsible of creating, delivering and managing
converged broadcast and telecommunications services.
The next section examines a number of metadata
languages candidates for describing the iTV services
user interface and the schema language adopted
in this project. A detailed description of the operation
of the two tools is provided to offer an insight of how
they can be used to de-skill and speed-up the process
of creating digital TV user interfaces and applications
for mobile terminals. Finally, representative broadcast
oriented and telecommunication oriented converged
service components are also introduced, demonstrating
how these tools have been used to generate different
types of services."
}
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