ABSTRACT
The conventional model of the individual working in front of a personal computer is challenged by innovative ways of accessing content and communication: networked mobile wireless devices grow their functionality, handheld interfaces become richer, mobile-distributed delivery of content will be fully integrated with conventional media, and entirely new social forms of communication are emerging. Present interaction models, even the ones developed respecting the rules of usability, often lack fundamental emotional qualities that are needed to support and increase existing social behaviors and rituals. The transition from cable and broadcast TV to Internet Protocol networked TV is transforming the paradigm of interacting with video, movies, and TV content. The interfaces of these devices are no longer exclusively mediators between a machine and an individual but much more often they are the interfaces that structure the user’s communication mental model or interfaces that organize, contextualize, and categorize in an accessible way the vast space of networked content.
