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.

Trendtv : uma arquitetura para mudança automática de canais de TV baseada em redes sociais virtuais com graus de amizade e suporte a múltiplos dispositivos no cenário da TV digital brasileira

Due to the large amount of television content, which emerged from the Digital TV, viewers are facing a new challenge, how to find interesting content intuitively and efficiently. The Personalized Electronic Programming Guides (pEPG) arise as an answer to this complex challenge. We propose TrendTV a layered architecture that allows the formation of social networks among viewers of Interactive Digital TV based on online microblogging. Associated with a pEPG, this social network allows the viewer to perform content filtering on a particular subject from the indications made by other viewers of his network. Allowing the viewer to create his own indications for a particular content when it is displayed, or to analyze the importance of a particular program online, based on these indications. This allows any user to perform filtering on content and generate or exchange information with other users in a flexible and transparent way, using several different devices (TVs, Smartphones, Tablets or PCs). Moreover, this architecture defines a mechanism to perform the automatic exchange of channels based on the best program that is showing at the moment, suggesting new components to be added to the middleware of the Brazilian Digital TV System (Ginga). The result is a constructed and dynamic database containing the classification of several TV programs as well as an application to automatically switch to the best channel of the moment

Telejornalismo e interatividade na TV digital: uma construção colaborativa e participativa no espaço digital

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

Roteiros educativos: um estudo sobre a adaptação de materiais didáticos para o contexto da TV digital interativa

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

As contribuições do design instrucional na elaboração de ambiente de aprendizagem para a TV digital interativa

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

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

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Computação - IBILCE

TV digital: propostas para desenvolvimento de conteúdos em animação para o ensino de ciências

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Gamificação: abordagem e construção conceitual para aplicativosem TV Digital Interativa

The deployment of Digital TV in Brazil opens up space for the development of educative content based on the concepts of t-learning and edutertainment. The study proposes the application of the gamification as a link of communication to encourage and modify the users’ behavior. However, bumps into itself on the conceptual problem, once the literature brings several definitions that vary according to the application context. The objective this study, exploratory, is to propose a conceptual approach, in order to build a delimited concept that substantiates the gamification system in Interactive Digital TV.

Realidade interativa: protótipo de telejornal interativo para TV Digital baseado no conceito de infotretenimento

The goal of this article is to describe the production of “Interactive Reality” program, prototype for interactive Digital TV newscast based on the concept of infotainment, defined as a genre hybrid television show between information and entertainment. Therefore, it is proposed a script with interactive content, a prototype of the newscast, its results and implications for future researches.

Video Composer and Live Video Conductor: Future Professions for the Interactive Digital Broadcasting Industry

Innovations in hardware and network technologies lead to an exploding number of non-interrelated parallel media streams. Per se this does not mean any additional value for consumers. Broadcasting and advertisement industries have not yet found new formats to reach the individual user with their content. In this work we propose and describe a novel digital broadcasting framework, which allows for the live staging of (mass) media events and improved consumer personalisation. In addition new professions for future TV production workflows which will emerge are described, namely the 'video composer' and the 'live video conductor'.

A TV digital e o setor industrial tecnológico brasileiro

O presente estudo disserta sobre o papel da indústria, com foco nos fabricantes de televisores e sua participação na implantação e desenvolvimento da TV Digital no Brasil, como os primeiros atores desse cenário a apontar o norte para a viabilização de um modelo de negócio para a Televisão Digital (TVD) e Televisão Digital Interativa (TVDI): a TV Conectada e a TV Inteligente. Faz um levantamento histórico do tema desde o Governo FHC, passando pelo Governo Lula até o atual Governo Dilma. O texto apresenta os desafios técnico, político e econômico dessa implementação. Pretende identificar os acertos e enganos dos atores envolvidos nesse cenário, montado para a implementação do sistema digital da TV brasileira. Ressalta os interesses, nem sempre harmônicos, de todos os envolvidos: do capital, com foco no lucro; do governo, com seus acordos políticos, muitas vezes contrapondo ao cumprimento de seu papel de representante dos interesses da maioria da população brasileira; e da dinâmica científico tecnológico-industrial, que necessita de campo fértil, propício e contínuo para se desenvolver.(AU)

Inclusão via TV digital interativa brasileira: um estudo de caso no estado do Maranhão

Este trabalho discorre sobre o processo de implantação da TV digital interativa no Brasil, tendo como estudo de caso o estado do Maranhão e foca as possibilidades de inclusão social e digital em regiões com fragilidades de prestação de serviços públicos como Previdência Social, atendimento médico, bancário e de ensino a distância. Para tanto, aborda políticas públicas que conduziram ao SBTVD Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão Digital no país. O estudo apresenta as discussões na esfera pública e privada com a participação de organizações reconhecidamente qualificadas dentro e fora do país. Mostra também o complexo processo de articulação governamental com entidades da indústria eletroeletrônica e de grupos de telecomunicações privados instalados no Brasil, bem como a resistência de radiodifusores do setor privado em adotar o modelo proposto pelo Decreto 5.820/06 que prevê distribuição e acesso gratuito da população a serviços públicos essenciais por meio da televisão aberta. As consequências refletidas na permanência do atraso e baixo desenvolvimento do estado do Maranhão abrem possibilidades de superação com os novos programas disponibilizados pela Secretaria de Inclusão Digital (SID), do Ministério das Comunicações para responder à enorme demanda que priva regiões do Brasil como o Maranhão de desenvolvimento social e inclusão digital.

Exploring the adoption of interactive digital television services as a retail shopping platform

The aim of this research is to consider the possible effect of an emerging technology platform on the uptake of online shopping: interactive (digital) Television (iTV), which enables viewers to select a variety of viewing options, publicity materials, games, entertainment and more recently shopping. An augmented version of the original TAM is applied to this study. Two new constructs are considered namely access and awareness together with perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived enjoyment and security. The results show that indeed the augmented TAM can be used as a predictive model for the adoption of iTV as an online shopping platform. It is concluded that access, perceived ease of use, perceived enjoyment and perceived usefulness are significant factors to determine the consumers’behavioural intentions towards the use of digital TV as a new shopping platform. However, awareness and security are considered to be insignificant with no effect on consumers’ behavioural intentions towards the new shopping medium.

Resilience by design: A participatory approach to designing an interactive digital application for promoting children's resilience

The promotion of resilience (the capacity of an individual or community to bounce back and recover from adversity) has become an important area of public health. In recent years it has expanded into the digital domain, and many online applications have been developed to promote children's resilience. In this study, it is argued that the majority of existing applications are limited because they take a didactic approach, and conceive of interaction as providing navigational choices. Because they simply provide information about resilience or replicate offline, scenario-based strategies, the understanding of resilience they provide is confined to a few, predetermined factors. In this study I propose a new, experiential approach to promoting resilience digitally. I define resilience as an emergent, situated and context-specific phenomenon. Using a Participatory Design model in combination with a salutogenic (strength-based) health methodology, this project has involved approximately 50 children as co-designers and co-researchers over two years. The children have contributed to the design of a new set of interactive resilience tools, which facilitate resilience promotion through dialogic and experiential learning. The major outcomes of this study include a new methodology for developing digital resilience tools, a new set of tools that have been developed and evaluated in collaboration with children and a set of design principles to guide future development. Beyond these initial and tangible outcomes, this study has also established that the benefits of introducing Participatory Design into a health promoting model rests primarily in the change of the role of children from "users" of technology and education to co-designers, where they assume a leadership role in both designing the tools and in directing their resilience learning.

InStory – The Making of na Interactive Digital Narrative

Em cooperação com Glorianna Davenport do M.I.T. Media Lab