[Air-L] Early registration EuroITV2009 extended to 20 April

[Jo Pierson]

EuroITV2009 - 7th European Interactive Television Conference

3, 4 and 5 June in Leuven, Belgium

Early registration for EuroITV2009 has been extended until 20 April  
2009, in order to allow workshop and iTV in industry participants to  
benefit from the reduced fee. The registration form can be accessed  
from the following page:

http://www.euroitv2009.org/registration.html

The organization of EuroITV2009 is in full progress, and most of the  
programme has already been filled. We are proud to announce three  
diverse and excitingkeynote speakers:

- The Connected Home redefines the TV experience by Jan Van Bogaert  
(Alcatel-Lucent)
- The Internet Revolution Will Be Televised by Rich Ezekiel (Yahoo!  
Connected TV)
- Needs, emotions, experience! by Prof. Dr. Marc Hassenzahl (Folkwang  
University Essen)

The following tutorials will be held on Wednesday 3 June 2009:

- User Experience in TV-centric Services: What to consider in the  
Design and Evaluation?
- Standardized IPTV services in Managed IP Infrastructures
- Ambient Media
- How to create an iDTV campaign
- Designing and Evaluating the Sociability of Interactive Television

On the EuroITV2009 website you can find more details about the current  
status of the programme, including the three keynote presentations,  
four workshops, five tutorials, 15 academic full papers and 21  
academic short papers. The accepted posters, demos, doctoral  
consortium papers and iTV in Industry papers will be available on the  
website soon, and we are still expecting submissions for the Arts  
Exhibition (deadline 10 April). For more details, see:

http://www.euroitv2009.org/

The detailed programme, including the schedule of the different  
sessions, will be available around mid-April.


Conference Organizing Committee:

General Chair: Prof. Dr. Dirk De Grooff (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
Program Chairs: David Geerts (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) and Pablo Cesar  
(CWI, The Netherlands)
Tutorials Chair: Regina Bernhaupt (University of Salzburg, Austria)
Doctoral Consortium Chair: George Lekakos (Athens University of  
Economics and Business, Greece)
Demonstration Chairs: Erika Reponen (Nokia, Finland) and Hendrik  
Knoche (University College London, UK)
Short Papers & Posters Chairs: Christof van Nimwegen (K.U.Leuven,  
Belgium) and Judith Masthoff (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Workshop Chairs: Gunnar Harboe (Motorola Labs, USA) and Marianna  
Obrist (University of Salzburg, Austria)
iTV in Industry Chairs: Karin Slegers (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) and Artur  
Lugmayr (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Arts Chair: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos (Ionian University, Greece)
Track Chairs: Lyn Pemberton (University of Brighton, UK), Jo Pierson  
(Free University of Brussels, Belgium) and Cristian Hesselman  
(Telematica Institute, The Netherlands)


Program Committee:

http://www.euroitv2009.org/committees.html#program


Contact:

For up to date information and further details please visit:
http://www.euroitv2009.org/

Send any inquiry about the conference to:
info at euroitv2009.org

To receive updates about the EuroITV2009 Conference, subscribe to the  
Conference mailing list on this page: http://www.euroitv2009.org/mailinglist.php


Host:

Centre for User Experience Research (CUO), IBBT / K.U.Leuven
(http://soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/cuo/)

EuroITV2009 is made possible by the following sponsors and partners:  
Zappware, IBBT, Philips (gold sponsors), Nokia, Ruwido (bronze  
sponsors), InformITV, ITVT, UITV.info, Interaction-design.org,  
Informatics Europe (media partners). It is organized in cooperation  
with EuroITV, ACM, SIGMM, SIGWEB, SIGCHI and IFIP.



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Jo Pierson, Ph.D.
IBBT - SMIT, Studies on Media, Information & Telecommunication
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Offices: Pleinlaan 9, 2nd floor
B - 1050 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: +32 2 629 16 27
Fax: +32 2 629 17 00
E-mail: jo.pierson at vub.ac.be
http://smit.vub.ac.be