HbbTV User Interface Usability

The goal of this paper is to explore how TV viewers perceive the HbbTV interactive service, which has been increasingly used to broadcast additional contents on TVs.If the volume of contents available to be provided to viewers is considered, the question is whether the developed user interfaces are up to the challenge.Are they easy to use and intuitive?All this considering the fact that the user interface is controlled by a simple TV remote control.For the purposes of this research, the EVOtv user application was used.The research was conducted by applying the User Eye Tracking and the User Opinion Survey through a Predefined Questionnaire testing methods.Based on the obtained results it was concluded that the HbbTV user interface is easy to use, that EVOtv's design has been tailored to the medium it is used on (the TV) and that the usage of HbbTV user interface is also affected by the age of users.