Usability guidelines related to ease of learning and ease of use in the design of interactive digital television applications, considering user profiles

Interactive Digital Television (IDTV) has grown in popularity, thanks to new innovations in technology, it occupies an important place in society. Although there are guidelines, principles, standards, among others, to design interactive systems in the field of guidelines for designing IDTV applications it is relatively a little that has been stated. This article presents a set of usability guidelines related to ease of learning and use in design IDTV applications, which focus on user profiles. These guidelines have been generated from tests conducted at the IDTV Laboratory of University of Cauca (Colombia).