Dynamic TV-content augmentation by Web pages A prototype of enhanced remote control capable to complement TV-Viewing retrieving additional information from the World Wide Web

摘要

In this paper, we focus on integration of television program with Web contents. In the near future, these media will have similar features and the boundaries between them will become increasingly blurred, but nowadays both media are different enough to require noteworthy modifications in their respective computing models. We propose a first step towards their fusion, merging their features without forcing or changing their own structure. Starting from the idea that the integration of Internet and TV contents implies that the "digital objects" could migrate between the two devices, we developed the concept of enhanced remote control. We present a set-op-box prototype capable of controlling the TV set, the media systems, and that additionally will enable the linking from television programs into the Web.