User-Centered Interaction Design Patterns for Interactive Digital Television Applications

✍ Scribed by Tibor Kunert (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

When a new technology – such as interactive digital television – is introduced to a wider audience, ease of use is often critical to success. By focusing on these usability issues with the aim of supporting user acceptance for interactive TV, Tibor Kunert provides clear guidelines for designing the user interfaces on interactive TV applications.

This guidance is presented in the form of design patterns, and a new approach is proposed that helps designers and developers to explore design alternatives and to evaluate the trade-offs that need to be made in order to maximise usability.

The 42 design patterns containing 185 guidelines provide comprehensive and empirically-validated guidance for designing interactive TV user interfaces. A pattern language is developed which can be used for designing specific applications, for enduring usability, and for defining corporate style guidelines and developing application templates that help streamline the process of production.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Interactive TV Applications and Their Context of Use....Pages 19-46
Types of Design Guidance for iTV Applications....Pages 47-84
User Tasks and Requirements for iTV Applications....Pages 85-98
Design Pattern Collection for iTV....Pages 99-175
Method of Pattern Development....Pages 177-245
Conclusion....Pages 247-255
Back Matter....Pages 257-352

✦ Subjects

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Information Systems and Communication Service