Ana Hulshof  presented “Designing iTV Interfaces for Preschool Children” at the Euro ITV conference that took place last 3rd, 4th and 5th of June in Leuen, Belgium.

EuroITV2009 is a forum for professionals not only from Europe, but from all over the world who are interested in, work with and do research on all aspects of interactive television.

The theme of this year conference was “Networked Television”. Interactive television is becoming one piece in a bigger puzzle of different interconnected devices. This not only has technical implications, but also impacts users and television viewers.
Viewers use their cell phones to send text messages to broadcasters, they use their PC to download movies that can then be watched on the big television screen, social networks are including TV content and iTV is including social network features, secondary screens can be used to control the content on television, etc. Instead of an age of device convergence, we see that in practice we’re heading towards device divergence.

Euro ITV presentations are available here.