Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2012 European Interactive TV conference -- EuroITV'12. This year's conference marks the 10th anniversary of our community. The conference continues its tradition of being the premier forum for researchers and practitioners in the area of interactive TV and video to share their insights on systems and enabling technologies, human computer interaction as well as media and economic studies. EuroITV'12 provides researchers and practitioners a unique interdisciplinary venue to share and learn from each others' perspectives. This year, the theme of the conference - Bridging People, Places and Platforms - aimed at eliciting contributions that cover the increasingly diverse and heterogeneous infrastructure, services, applications and concepts that make up the experience of interacting with audio-visual content. We hope you will find them interesting and help you identify new directions for future research and development. The call for papers attracted 91 full and short paper submissions from Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. The program committee accepted 31 papers that cover a variety of topics, including cross-platform experiences, leveraging social networks, novel gesture based interaction techniques, accessibility, media consumption, content production and delivery optimization. In addition, the program includes keynote speeches by Janet Murray (Georgia Tech) on Emerging Storytelling Structures and Olga Khroustaleva & Tom Broxton (YouTube) on supporting the ecosystem of YouTube. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in the area of interactive multimedia consumption.