User interface development for interactive television: Extending a commercial DTV platform to the virtual channel API

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 157-166

  Chorianopoulos, Konstantinos ^a   Spinellis, Diomidis ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Animated character; Digital set top box; Music video clip; TiVo; User interface

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS; DIGITAL TELEVISION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMATED CHARACTER; DIGITAL SET-TOP BOX; MUSIC VIDEO CLIP; TIVO;

VIDEO ON DEMAND;

EID: 1342302261     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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