Pilot C looks at automatic User Interaction (UI) adaptation, and smart TV applications:
- 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 personalised media terminal with access to traditional broadcast as well as web-based services.
- The accessibility features of such a service will make use of the UI adaptation framework that was developed within the European project GUIDE (Gentle user interfaces for elderly people).
Pilot-C Objectives
The four 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 (UI) adaptation and personalisation service based on the framework provided by the European ICT project GUIDE. The service will include functions for user management, profiling as well as the necessary mechanisms for UI and subtitle adaptation. The web based accessibility service can be used by HBBTV 1.5 and HBBTV 2.0 based applications to integrate accessibility features such as personalized UI rendering.
2- Provision of a user testing and profiling application as part of the web based UI adaptation service. This application will be an essential part of the accessibility service and will allow determining user requirements and preferences based on a number of accessibility tests.
3- Provision of different ConnectedTV services running on HbbTV 1.5 and HBBTV 2.0 platforms targeting elderly people as their main user group. Those services will include a tele-learning service for life-long learning provided by Vsonix as well as an on demand media service provided by SCREEN. The accessibility features of these services will benefit from the targeted UI personalisation and adaptation service.
4- Complementary user experience testing of different end user related aspects of UI adaptation in the Connected TV world involving users from the target groups which will deliver metrics for Quality of Service done by UAB.