The potential of digital interactive television for the provision of healthcare and wellness services

The potential of digital interactive television (iDTV) to promote original services, formats and contents that can be relevant to support personal health care and wellness of individuals, namely elderly people, has not been yet fully explored in the past. Therefore, in a context of rapid change of the technological resources, in which the distribution and presentation of content comes associated with new platforms (such as digital terrestrial TV and IPTV), it is important to perceive the configurations that are being developed for interactive digital TV (iDTV) that may result in relevant outcomes within the field of healthcare and wellness, with the aim of offering complementarity to the existing services and contents made available today via the traditional means and media. This article describes and discusses the preliminary results of the first part of the research project iDTV-HEALTH: Inclusive services to promote health and wellness via digital interactive television. These first results suggest that iDTV solutions may represent a real contribution to delivery healthcare and wellness to the target population, namely as a supplement to health services provision.

Serviços inclusivos de promoção da saúde e bem-estar via televisão digital: reportagem e debate interativos sobre Diabetes

O desenvolvimento de serviços e conteúdos dedicados a públicos específicos, tendo em consideração as suas preferências, necessidades e atitudes, é um dos desafios da TV do futuro. O projeto “iDTV-Saúde: Serviços inclusivos de promoção da saúde e bem-estar via televisão digital interativa” (UTA-Est/MAI/0012/2009) tem como principal objetivo avaliar o potencial da TV digital interativa na promoção de serviços, formatos e conteúdos originais que possam ser relevantes no suporte aos cuidados pessoais de saúde e ao bem-estar da população com mais de 55 anos, em Portugal. Uma das componentes deste estudo passa pela produção de uma reportagem interativa seguida de um debate, em torno do tema “Diabetes”, dirigida especialmente à população sénior. O presente artigo descreve o conceito e a estratégia de desenvolvimento desta solução para TV interativa, cujo principal intuito é permitir à população-alvo o acesso a informação fidedigna e especializada sobre saúde, através do uso das novas tecnologias. A elaboração dos conteúdos informativos prevê a combinação dos conceitos de TV linear e TV interativa, com vista a oferecer complementaridade aos conteúdos atualmente difundidos pelos media tradicionais e a potenciar o aumento de capital social do público-alvo, bem como da sua literacia na área da saúde, respeitando as suas especificidades.

O potencial da televisão do futuro para a prestação de serviços de saúde e bem-estar

Este artigo apresenta os primeiros resultados do projecto de investigação “iDTV-Saúde: Serviços inclusivos de promoção da saúde e bem-estar via televisão digital interactiva”, cujo objectivo é avaliar a potencialidade da televisão digital interactiva (iDTV) para a promoção de serviços, formatos e conteúdos originais relevantes no suporte dos cuidados de saúde pessoais e bem-estar nas pessoas acima dos 55 anos em território português. A prática social da televisão está-se a alterar de forma altamente contingente (Green, 2008) e este projecto ocorre num contexto de profunda transformação deste meio em função do surgimento de novas plataformas tecnológicas, como televisão digital terrestre (TDT) e IPTV, assim como novas tecnologias de comunicação móvel como a WimAX e a Long Term Evolution (LTE). Por conseguinte, e num contexto de adopção de novas tecnologias para a produção e distribuição de conteúdo televisivo, este projecto procura avaliar a satisfação e o potencial gerado pelo serviço de iDTV como um meio de suporte à saúde e bem-estar ao mesmo tempo que facilita o acesso à informação e visualização de conteúdos, nomeadamente no que diz respeito à sua capacidade de aumentar os níveis de capital social entre o grupo alvo.

Arquitetura para aplicações interativas imersivas de televisão digital

In this work, we propose a new approach to Interactive Digital Television (IDTV), aimed to explore the concepts of immersivity. Several architectures have been proposed to IDTV, but they did not explore coherently questions related to immersion. The goal of this thesis consists in defining formally what is immersion and interactivity for digital TV and how they may be used to improve user experience in this new televisive model. The approach raises questions such as the appropriate choice of equipment to assist in the sense of immersion, which forms of interaction between users can be exploited in the interaction-immersion context, if the environment where an immersive and interactive application is used can influence the user experience, and which new forms of interactivity between users, and interactivity among users and interactive applications can be explored with the use of immersion. As one of the goals of this proposal, we point out new solutions to these issues that require further studies. We intend to formalize the concepts that embrace interactivity in the brazilian system of digital TV. In an initial study, this definition is organized into categories or levels of interactivity. From this point are made analisis and specifications to achieve immersion using DTV. We pretend to make some case studies of immersive interactive applications for digital television in order to validate the proposed architecture. We also approach the use of remote devices anda proposal of middleware architecture that allows its use in conjunction with immersive interactive applications

Convergência digital de sistemas de aprendizado colaborativo, considerando ambientes da web e da TV digital no Brasil

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Computação - IBILCE

Desenvolvimento de um protótipo de aplicações interativas para TV Digital no Middleware Ginga com objetos NCL

Pós-graduação em Televisão Digital: Informação e Conhecimento - FAAC

Gamificação aplicada à produção de roteiro para audiovisual educativo interativo

Pós-graduação em Televisão Digital: Informação e Conhecimento - FAAC

Televisão e mídias digitais na América Latina: um cenário em construção

The text is the initial result of a project called Global iTV, Interactive and systems Hybrid TV: a new advanced scheme for future services and applications in a global environment, contemplated by Call MCTI / CNPq 13/2012 – EUBrazil Cooperation Program in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) which has as its central theme the development of a standard that enables interoperability between the various digital TV systems operating jointly, exchanging and using information. Thus, using bibliographical and documentary research, the article goes on to demonstrate how this perspective panorama is drawing from the advent of digital television and the use of technology in Latin America, seeking to identify similarities, differences, problems and solutions arising from the use and consumption of digitizing television signal in the region. The results demonstrate the importance of media convergence, but point out that there are still large sections of the population on the margin of the Digital Society and the benefits provided by digital networks and that poverty and poor education are important contributions to this scenario.

Perspectivas transdisciplinares de aproximação com a ciência sob o olhar da Ciência da Informação: uma metodologia bottom-up para a TV Unesp

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Comunicação digital na América Latina: cenários, desafios e perspectivas

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Gamificação: modelagem de conteúdos para programas e aplicativos educativos no ambiente da TV digital interativa

With the deployment of Digital TV in Brazil, there is a need to foment the development and production of interactive audiovisual quality content, especially for programs that present educational messages from the entertainment concept - defined as Edutertainment. The objective of this study is to propose application of the gamification as a link of communication to encourage and modify user behavior, through a narrative that encourages intrinsic motivation for learning and entertainment in this media. This paper points out that there are few models of screenplays for applications production, particularly educational, with simultaneous interactive applications for television flow or complementary programming content offered. For this reason, a special attention is given to the screenplay, by virtue of inserting in its construction, the elements that make up the mechanics and dynamics of games. As a result, is shown the entry "Gamification-iDTV", which defines these two scenarios, as well as the development of a modeling methodology of a content and process, supported by conceptual maps, wireframes and roadmaps, substantiating the conception and elaboration of screenplay's prototype with elements of gamification for educational programs and its interaction applications.

Exploiting OSGi capabilities from MHP applications

In this paper we introduce a cooperative environment between the Interactive Digital TV (IDTV) and home networking with the aim of allowing the interaction between interactive TV applications and the controllers of the in-home appliances in a natural way. More specifically, our proposal consists of merging MHP (Multimedia Home Platform), one of the main standard frameworks for IDTV, with OSGi (Open Service Gateway Initiative), the most widely used open platform to set up Residential Gateways. To overcome the radically different nature of these specifications the function-oriented MHP middleware and the service-oriented OSGi framework , we define a new kind of application, coined as XbundLET. Although this software bridge is suitable to enable the interaction between MHP and OSGi applications in both directions, we concretely focus on exposing our implementation experience in only one direction: from MHP to the OSGi world.