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User-Centered Interaction Design Patterns for Interactive Digital Television Applications

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Technology is meant to make life easier and to raise its quality. Our interaction with technology should be designed according to human needs instead of us being required to adapt to technology. Even so, technology may change quickly and people and their habits change slowly (Norman 1988). Ease of use has been recognised as a key factor influencing users’ acceptance of new technologies, as in the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) framework (Davis 1989; Kaasinen 2005) and in the innovation diffusion framework (Rogers 1995). This book addresses interactive digital television (iTV) as an instance of new technology. With the aim of supporting user acceptance of iTV, the focus of this book is on the usability of iTV applications.

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