Interactive TV usability and accessibility
with Jonathan Marshall
16thAug '05
About the event
Jonathan Marshall looked at the creative challenges for usability within interactive TV and offered some solutions based on his experience both within the BBC and externally. His talk covered the history of the UK iTV platforms, design challenges, usability rules for iTV and a demonstration of iTV services.
Alex Carmichael's talk highlighted the diversity of the 'user group' associated with iTV from the perspective of human factors research for older people using various interactive 'systems'. Issues such as the domestic setting and the leisure context (as distinct from a work setting and 'efficiency' context); and the imposition of this technological infrastructure which fundamentally changes the nature of a familiar and 'easy-to-use' social activity, will indicate some of the challenges involved in ensuring that all 'TV viewers' can benefit from digital TV.
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