Supporting Context Events in an Interactive TV Platform

• Izon Thomaz Mielke UFES
• Patrícia Dockhorn Costa UFES
• Igor Magri Vale UFES

Resumo

This paper aims at investigating functionality of the middleware Ginga that can be leveraged to build context-aware interactive TV applications. We identify the elements of the middleware that can effectively be used to realize each of the particular aspects of context-awareness, namely capturing, processing and reacting upon context changes. We present a prototype application in order to illustrate how these elements have been identified and how they can be used. We also define a programming framework that facilitates capturing and distributing context events in this interactive TV platform.

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