Pilot-C Presentation and Deliverables 2014 & 2015
Pilot-C public Deliverables 2014 and 2015
Pilot-C Presentation, Objectives and HbbTV 2.0 advancements
During the last years digital TV as a media platform has increasingly turned from a simple receiver and presenter of broadcast signals to an interactive and personalized media terminal with access to traditional broadcast as well as web-based services such as OnDemand Video Services or services for telelearning.
The accessibility features of those services will make use of an online service for UI (User Interface) adaptation and personalisation.
– Pilot-C Objectives
The three core objectives of this sub-pilot respond to the above challenges which will be tackled in user trials conducted in Germany and Spain.
1- Realisation of a web based User Interface adaptation and personalisation service based on the accessibility framework provided by the European project GUIDE (Gentle user interfaces for elderly people),
2- Provision of a user testing and profile generation application as part of this service,
3- Provision of various applications running on PC, mobile as well as HbbTV (1.5 and 2.0) platforms that include the features of the service.
– Pilot-C & HBBTV 2.0
Within Pilot-C the consortium works on a UI adaptation service to provide personalized accessible UIs on PCs, mobile and HbbTV platforms. The framework will be showcased with a cross-platform online-learning application (MOOC: massive open online course) for PC, mobile and HbbTV platforms, a VoD application provided by SCREEN for HbbTV platforms as well as eventually a legacy HbbTV application provided by PPG.
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HbbTV 1.0 and 1.5
The MOOC application as well as the user profile generation application as cross platform applications will be based on HTML5, whereas we will have certain technical restrictions for both applications while targeting the existing HbbTV 1.X platforms. Hence the adaptation of these applications for HbbTV 1.X will have a reduced feature set and not support multiple videos or advanced graphics. To realize the HbbTV version of the MOOC showcase Pilot-C will use the TVAPPBOX framework by PPG. The TVAPPBOX is an application development framework specifically developed for HbbTV and ConnectedTV devices. It fully conforms to the ETSI HbbTV standards v1.0 through v1.5 and is compatible with all major HTML, CE-HTML, HTML5 platforms. It abstracts the application development process from underlying device specific implementations that exist in the market today.
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HBBTV 2.0
It is expected that the HbbTV 2.0 version of the MOOC application and the user profile generation application will be similar to their PC versions from a feature point of view. In addition to the HbbTV 1.X adaption the MOOC application may use the multi-stream synchronisation feature, which could be an essential feature for the MOOC application to output two parallel videos via IP at the same time. In the user profile generator application it is planned to include different graphical UI features such as CSS3 animations.