The Personal Electronic Program Guide - Towards the Pre-Selection of Individual TV Programs.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/cikm/EhrmanntrautHWS96,
  author    = {Michael Ehrmanntraut and
               Theo H{\"a}rder and
               Hartmut Wittig and
               Ralf Steinmetz},
  title     = {The Personal Electronic Program Guide - Towards the Pre-Selection
               of Individual TV Programs},
  booktitle = {CIKM '96, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on
               Information and Knowledge Management, November 12 - 16, 1996,
               Rockville, Maryland, USA},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1996},
  pages     = {243-250},
  ee        = {db/conf/cikm/EhrmanntrautHWS96.html, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/238355.238505},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/cikm/96},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Digital and interactive TV systems will bring hundreds of TV program channels to the people. Then, the use of existing strategies for channel selection will fail: It is neither possible to select the program by "surfing" through the channels, nor by using printed program guides.

This paper describes a new approach towards creation of a Personal Electronic Program Guide (EPG) regarding the individual view preferences of a user. The foundation of individual TV program preselection is a classified and categorized TV program description and the maintenance of user profiles describing his viewing preferences. Besides creation of user profiles, an automatic update technique will be introduced. Channel selection events are taken as parameters for an adjustment of user profiles. Personal program preselection is done by using intelligent filtering techniques which apply individual user profiles to the TV program description (so-called matching). An approach to design and realize an EPG prototype system will be described in this paper.

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