Paper Info
Title
Responsive web design for the internet connected TV: The answer to more smart TV content?
Abstract
This paper investigates the use of Responsive Web Design, a popular technique for adapting a web page to different devices, in the context of Connected TV devices. Although all modern Smart TVs feature a web browser, its use is very limited, while user surveys reveal serious usability issues. One of the major problems with TV web browsing is that there are very few TV-optimized websites. Most of the web content is designed for Desktops, which causes a number of usability issues, making the experience very frustrating for the TV users. This situation looks very similar to the early days of web on mobile phones. It took some years until a large number of websites became mobile-friendly and now it has become a standard practice. Responsive web design helped this adaption, since it was no longer needed to design a separate website for each device, but a single one that adapted depending on the user's device. This technique has not yet been applied for TV websites, and this is what this paper investigates. We explore the convergence of Responsive Web Design on Smart TVs and apply this technique on a typical News website which is responsive for Mobile, Tablet and Desktop by adding an additional layout adaption for TV. Consequently, this website is tested on the three most popular TV platforms. Conclusively, we propose guidelines on how Responsive Web Design can be exploited for Smart TV web browsing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2015.7391286
2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Responsive Web Design,Connected TV,Smart TV,Mobile Phones,Tablets,WWW
Web development,Web design,World Wide Web,Web page,Web analytics,Computer science,Web standards,Responsive web design,Web navigation,Web service,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emmanouil Perakakis193.07
Gheorghita Ghinea2979104.23