Barriers to Interactive Television (BITe)
Barriers to Interactive Television (BITe): This is a WestFocus HEIF3 funded project, a collaboration between Brunel and Westminster Universities. It involves research studies looking at users’ exploitation of interactive audio visual technology and their perceptions and desires for the further development of interactive TV and digital media. It focuses on two key issues, barriers to digital interactive media and personalisation of digital interactive media and how these apply to its use in the home. The project has developed new prototypes, which employ a second screen (PDA and Ultra Mobile PC -UMPC) solutions for controlling iTV services wirelessly, therefore removing the need for iTV services to use onscreen graphics, dramatically improving the possibilities for effective interaction and navigation for iTV interfaces and services, such as an Electronic Programme Guide (EPG). The effectiveness of these solutions was evaluated through the testing of these new iTV services in a representative group of 30 family homes. (Total £100k, Brunel £30k)
For more information on this project, please contact Dr Emmanuel Tsekleves.
The BITE prototype system architecture
The PDA Prototype, displaying the EPG
The UMPC Prototype, displaying the EPG and Media centre
