By development of various multimedia devices,
personal computer is not the only platform for dealing
with information. In past, people can only get
messages and make communications on computers.
Nowadays, people can exchange information and get
knowledge by using various mobile and multimedia
devices. In all type of electronic consumers, TV is a
well-known and popular product. Monochrome
television is proposed in the early stage of the 20th
century; the term “television” combines “tele” and
“vision” is from the ability that receives distant images.
In recent years, due to great improvement of
technologies and devices, people are not only satisfied
with simple images. The interaction between users and
devices becomes an important issue in various fields.
Some interesting interactions have been implemented
in software runs in personal computer environments.
Comparing to other devices, software on PC are more
complicated than others. It is really pity that users who
are not familiar with computers can’t access
information from computers. The behavior of watching
TV is definitely another story, users which don’t have
experience to operating computers may have TV and
are used to watching TV programs. Such kind of users
provides us motivations to select TV as a major display
device to development related software. Technologies
of interactive TV provides better interactions to users
than traditional ones. By such technologies, users not
only receive passive information but also make
feedback to broadcasting station or program providers.
Considering better performance of digital learning,
developing an appropriate quiz and testing system on
digital TV is an important task for providing novel
experience and entertainment for learners. Such
framework of quiz and testing will make digital
learning systems more complete. The process of
testing is also a part of learning behavior. By taking
various tests rapidly, learners can evaluate their
learning performance and discover misunderstanding
parts of learning contents to make their concepts
clearer.
Based on these reasons mentioned above, Digital
TV is selected for presenting quizzes and tests and
handling learners’ interactions. The system based on
digital TV Technologies may provide new experience
and convenience to learners which are familiar with
TV than computers.