Dear Workshop Chairs, I am sending this message to express our interest in participating in the Web on TV Workshop. ---------------------------------------- Name, organization and contact details ---------------------------------------- The following people would like to join the workshop. * Hiroyuki Koreeda Hitachi,Ltd., Consumer Electronics Laboratory * Katsuhiko Kageyama Hitachi,Ltd., Consumer Electronics Laboratory ------------------------------------------------------------- A statement of interest (see requirements for participation) ------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- Participants' interest in the workshop --------------------------------------- We have been doing research on consumer electronics devices, and recently had brought web techniques into digital TVs. Now we are interested in the future of user interface of digital TVs. We believe how to improve user interfaces for TVs will be one of the most important topics in the near future. In particular, we are very interested in HTML5 because of its great capability in handling user input/output. Using HTML5, we would like to implement richer user interfaces and stronger connectivities between home networks, broadcasting services and the Web. --------------------------------------- View point --------------------------------------- Our view points are followings, * The requirements for extensions of the existing standards and hardware. * How to control devices such as TV. * Developing TV software efficiently using standard. * Collaboration with other consumer electronics devices. --------------------------------------- Concrete examples of their suggestions --------------------------------------- We are considering the topic now, so we don't have examples yet. --- [1]http://actvila.jp/ [2]http://av.hitachi.co.jp/tv/wooonet/index.html Sincerely, ------------------------ Katsuhiko Kageyama(katsuhiko.kageyama.ep@hitachi.com) Hitachi,Ltd., Consumer Electronics Laboratory