1st international workshop on ambient media delivery and interactive television

Through new interactive features, television is becoming a central hub for entertainment, communication, and sharing. Instead of old, push-based broadcasting to set-top-boxes, new pull-based, interactive services and tighter integration with other audio/visual entertainment devices enable ambient access to tv programming. Thus, with the steering committee members, Marina Geymonat (Telecom Italia, Italy) and Roberto Rossetto (RAI-Teche, Italy), we have envisioned and organized the Ambient Media Delivery and Interactive Television workshop, AMDIT 2008, focusing on the data management challenges associated with the design of ambient media delivery and user aware interactive television systems, to make television programmes available and easily accessible in multiple contexts, through diverse media devices. Below, I provide an overview of the contributions to the workshop.