ICT integration for info-marginalized people through innovative digital TV interfaces

In this paper we describe a new e-service provisioning model based on digital TV as the most familiar way to favor digital inclusion (e-inclusion) and social inclusion and to reduce the digital gap between elderly and disabled people and the information society. Different D-TV platforms are considered and several input and output interfaces for user interaction are analyzed and tested. Finally, a new interesting scenario involving a “hidden PC” into the living room scene as enhanced media centre allows to adopt new interfaces and devices towards an easier and more familiar user interaction.