iTV in Industry 5: Are Smartphone TV Apps Easier to Use than Remote Controls to Control TV?

This paper addresses the question: are smartphone TV apps
as easy to use as remote controls for controlling TV.
Although smartphone apps make it easier to navigate lists of
items, such as TV shows, access to other often-used
functions may be less efficient because assess requires extra
navigation. Also, additional steps required to access the TV
app on the smartphone may offset any inherent advantage to
using it. Smartphone app designs could reduce or eliminate
this extra navigation and make smartphone TV apps more
efficient and thus preferred over remote controls.

本文旨在探讨：用于操控电视机的智能手机电视应用（smartphone TV apps），其易用性能否与传统电视遥控器相提并论。尽管智能手机应用可简化影视节目列表等内容的浏览流程，但用户访问其他常用功能的效率或有所降低——此类访问需额外的导航步骤。此外，用户在智能手机上启动电视应用所需的额外操作，可能会抵消使用该应用的固有优势。若对智能手机应用的设计进行优化，便可减少乃至消除此类额外导航环节，提升智能手机电视应用的操控效率，使其相较传统遥控器更具用户吸引力。