In particular, serious attention must be paid to facilitate the selection of content on an individual basis, and to provide easy-to-use interfaces that satisfy viewers' interaction requirements.

This volume collects selected research reports on the development of personalized services for Interactive TV.

Electronic Program Guides.- User Modeling and Recommendation Techniques for Personalized Electronic Program Guides.- TV Personalization System.- Case-Studies on the Evolution of the Personalized Electronic Program Guide.- Interactive Television Personalization.- Group Modeling: Selecting a Sequence of Television Items to Suit a Group of Viewers.- Categorization of Japanese TV Viewers Based on Program Genres They Watch.- Broadcast News and Personalized Content.- Personalcasting: Tailored Broadcast News.- Media Augmentation and Personalization Through Multimedia Processing and Information Extraction.- Content Morphing: A Novel System for Broadcast Delivery of Personalizable Content.- ITV User Interfaces.- Designing Usable Interfaces for TV Recommender Systems.- The Time-Pillar World.

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