Personalisation technologies for the digital TV world

Abstract. The information overload problem is becoming a serious issue on the Internet and users are finding it increasingly difficult to quickly locate the right information at the right time. Content per-sonalisation techniques may provide a useful solution by enabling information services to respond to the implicit and explicit prefer-ences of individual users. In this paper we describe an innovative personalised TV listings service (PTV), which has been successfully deployed on a number of Irish Web sites and which has attracted over 15,000 users in the first year of operation.