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“I Just Want to See the News” – Interactivity in Mobile Environments

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Interactive TV: a Shared Experience (EuroITV 2007)

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Mobile TV marketers are announcing mobile TV as a new interactive medium, however users seemingly “just want to see news” but cannot imagine using interactivity. This paper deals with the challenge of enabling and encouraging users to understand the benefits and potentials of interactivity. Specific interactive applications as well as strategies to set them up in the first phase of mobile TV will be presented. The market development of interactive mobile TV applications is described as a process of mutual learning involving all stakeholder of the new technology.

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Hübel, AK., Theilmann, J., Theilmann, U. (2007). “I Just Want to See the News” – Interactivity in Mobile Environments. In: Cesar, P., Chorianopoulos, K., Jensen, J.F. (eds) Interactive TV: a Shared Experience. EuroITV 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4471. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72559-6_22

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