UltraTV – Social iTV

PROJECT TITLE

UltraTV – UltraHD TV Application Ecosystem

TYPE

Sponsored Project

CATEGORY

Advanced Interaction

STATE

Finished

SHORT DESCRIPTION

The Ultra TV project represents a cornerstone of the innovation and development roadmap of Altice Labs, SA. The project reinforces the importance of the advances and scientific contributions of the University of Aveiro and the Institute of Telecommunications of Aveiro in going beyond the state of the art in several technological areas of interest in IPTV, its user experience, and the Over-The-Top (OTT) content delivery component. The central goal of the project is to create an Interactive TV multi-device ecosystem focused on a profile-based UI for the unification of linear and non-linear content and sources. This system supports the market’s latest applications and functions and is able to provide the foundation for a new generation of MEO’s service, in Portugal and across all other geographies where the Altice group is present (France, Israel, the Dominican Republic and the United States).

DATES

2016 – 2018

PARTNERS

Altice Labs | Instituto de Telecomunicações

CO-FINANCED BY

UltraTV

SC Publications

Velhinho, A., Fernandes, S., Abreu, J., Almeida, P., & Silva, T. (2019). Field trial of a new iTV approach: The potential of its UX among younger audiences. Communications in Computer and Information Science (Vol. 1004). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23862-9_10

Abreu, J., Almeida, P., Fernandes, S., Velhinho, A., & Rodrigues, A. (2018). Content Unification: A Trend Reshaping the iTV Ecosystem. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 11112 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99426-0_33

Abreu, J., Almeida, P., Silva, T., Velhinho, A., & Fernandes, S. (2018). Using experts review to validate an interactive tv user interface for the unification of contents. In IMCIC 2018 - 9th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, Proceedings (Vol. 2, pp. 1–5).

Abreu, J., Almeida, P., Velhinho, A., Fernandes, S., & Guedes, R. (2018). An iTV Prototype for Content Unification. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 11112 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99426-0_32

Almeida, P., Abreu, J., Silva, T., Varsori, E., Oliveira, E., Velhinho, A., … Oliveira, D. (2018). Iterative User Experience Evaluation of a User Interface for the Unification of TV Contents. Communications in Computer and Information Science (Vol. 813). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90170-1_4

Almeida, P., De Abreu, J. F., Fernandes, S., & Oliveira, E. (2018). Content unification in TV to enhance user experience: The ultra TV project. In TVX 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (pp. 167–172). https://doi.org/10.1145/3210825.3213558

Becker, V., Abreu, J., Nogueira, J., & Cardoso, B. (2018). The development of non-linear TV and schedule deprogramming. Observatorio, 12(1), 199–216. Retrieved from http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1646-59542018000100012&lng=pt&tlng=pt

De Abreu, J. F., Almeida, P., Velhinho, A., & Varsori, E. (2018). Viewers’ behaviors at home on TV and other screens: An online survey. In TVX 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (pp. 173–178). https://doi.org/10.1145/3210825.3213559

Fernandes, S., Velhinho, A., Abreu, J., & Almeida, P. (2018). UI design for an iTV platform: An iterative approach. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. https://doi.org/10.1145/3233824.3233851

Silva, T., Almeida, P., Abreu, J., & Oliveira, E. (2018). Interaction paradigms on iTV: A survey towards the future of television. In IMCIC 2018 - 9th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, Proceedings (Vol. 2, pp. 18–23).

Abreu, J., Nogueira, J., Becker, V., & Cardoso, B. (2017). Survey of Catch-up TV and other time-shift services: a comprehensive analysis and taxonomy of linear and nonlinear television. Telecommunication Systems, 64(1), 57–74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-016-0157-3