While Europe is also a leader in interactive TV, the penetration rate of fiber optic cable that enables interactivity is still relatively low.
The static networks provide an insight into the relationship between compound properties and synergy, but the use of JavaScript enabled interactivity affords more involved exploration of the data.
Cognitive Networks isn't the only ACR vendor in town — startups like Flingo are also seeking to enable more interactivity on the TV screen.
Very soon e-skin will allow doctors to monitor a patient's health electronically, enable gestured interactivity with all digital devices in our homes, and give us one more reason not to get our work done.
Meaningful interaction is not necessarily enabled by interactivity per se, but by specific types of interactivity.
Several features distinguish NPACT representations from other frame-analysis viewers and from a classical 'genome-browser' representation: (i) NPACT generates a continuous representation of the genome sequence and its features in a multi-line format enabling canvas interactivity under the KonvaJS HTML5 Canvas JavaScript framework.
Cautiously, he embraced the idea that interactivity could enable a newly pliant idea of cinematic narrative — "one that is opposed to most popular movies, which are built on suspense, which make you want to get to the resolution, and focus you on one track, one ending".
For the subscribers, interactivity will enable them to do everything from ordering video-on-demand movies at the touch of a button on the remote control, to clicking on a commercial to learn more about, and even buy, the product being advertised.
The process, according to John Seely Brown, a theorist of information technology and former director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, reflects "a huge shift in popular culture, from consuming to participating" enabled by the interactivity so characteristic of the Internet.
