FutureTV 2013 - 4th International Workshop on Future Television: Linking Television and Web across Screens

We want to explore in this 4th Future Television workshop the research and development necessary for linking the worlds of TV and the Web, with special emphasis on moving the integrated Web-TV experience which is currently partially being provided on single screens (the TV, but also the mobile) into second screens and multiple screens, and on examining how the use of more than one screen, combined with various interaction and sensor possibilities (touch, gesture, speech, movement), could contribute new ideas and more intuitive usage possibilities for the future vision of “Linked Television”.
We solicit research and development papers which present original new work that could be part of future linked TV, including:
how TV and Web content could be interrelated, especiallyacross different screens;
how interaction with TV and Web content could be performed intuitively and seamlessly, especially on different screens;
what (non-linear) stories can be told to different viewers by interweaving TV and Web content, especially across screens;
HCI aspects to interact with (interrelated) Web and TV content at the same time, and how multiple screens can be applied to that;
gaps in existing specifications and standards, requirements on new specifications and standards, how to bridge the communication gap and the content gap between TV and Web content, especially on different devices and screens;
business and consumer applications of applications of mixed TV and Web content, also on multiple screens.
Submissions
High quality submissions are solicited from all academic, scientific and industrial participants interested in the future vision of linkedTV and in discussing how it can be brought about on a research, development and commercialization level. We invite all contributions which address any of the below topics, or other topics considered as important by the authors to the goals of the workshop:
Annotation of Web and TV content for interweaving of both
Models for describing the interweaving of TV and Web content in a single experience (and on multiple devices)
Synchronization of TV or Web content for interrelated presentation (and on two or more devices)
User interfaces for applications (also running on multiple screens)
Interaction models for content (also displayed across several screens)
Applications for interweaving TV and Web content in a consumer or business context (also across screens)
Requirements for new and extensions to existing standards and recommendations in TV and mobile platforms to support Web-TV content consumption, also on multiple screens
Usability studies, market analysis, business models for cross- device and cross-platform content applications
We encourage various types of submission:
full papers (max 12 pages) for mature work which has been subject to evaluation and whose results have been made public / commercialised, or
short papers (max 6 pages), for significant work in progress, late breaking results or ideas / challenges for the domain, as well as
demo submissions (max 2 pages describing the planned demo), for software and platforms which may be able to support a part of the imaginable linkedTV ecosystem.
Accepted full papers will be presented at length during the workshop, while accepted short papers will be allocated a shorter speaking slot and/or a place in a dedicated poster & demo session (depending on time available). Accepted demos will be included in the dedicated poster & demo session in the workshop.
Submissions must be in PDF and must be submitted using easychair. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
EasyChair Submission URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=future...
Accepted full and short papers will be published in the EuroITV 2013 adjunct proceedings. Following the workshop, selected workshop authors may be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of a top-quality international journal.