Program

Day 1 - Thursday 18. September

11:00 Welcome address J-M Merour (Thales Alenia Space)

11:10 Keynote - User experience in TV centric services M. Obrist (U. o. Salzburg)

11:40 coffee break

12:00 Designing for many services. Talks by D. Geerts (KU Leuven) & W. Seager (UCL)

13:30 lunch

14:30 From one to many boxes - secondary displays. Talks by P. Cesar (CWI) & H. Knoche (UCL)

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Panel discussion - Future outlook. Participants from Eutelsat, Motorola, Alcatel, tba



Day 2 - Fri 19. September

09:00 Plenary talk: "Who Can Bridge the Information Divide?" (G. Corazza University of Bologna)

09:30 The UNIC paradigm (Chair J-M Merour, Thales Alenia Space)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 EC Initiatives on the Digital Divide and Satellite fields (chair M. Luise University of Pisa)

- Presentation of the Satsix project (H. Cruickshank and Dr L. Laing)
- Presentation of the IMOSAN project
- ESA initiatives on the Digital Divide (A. Ginesi ESA)

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Round Table: Terrestrial and satellite technologies to bring multimedia to everybody (with the UNIC Guidance Group)

15:30 Conclusions

16:00 End of the Workshop