Jason Rosado

For our Future of Television Final Project, we submitted a video to illustrate the user journey and benefits provided by the concept.  JoynTV is a multi-platform video content and gaming experience.

[Future of Television] JoynTV Final Presentation from Jason Rosado on Vimeo.

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The following is our homework submission for the Future of Television blog:

This week’s blog post assignment has us focusing on APIs and how they relate to the television watching experience. In doing some last minute research (“we had to do a blog post this week, too?!?”), Team Melo is happy to share some thoughts on the topic. A quick Google search netted this article which highlights some of the better APIs out there.

We were then happy to come across CoverPop, which is based on the YouTube API which was highlighted in the above referenced article as one of the better (if not the best) available APIs. CoverPop takes images from the most popular YouTube videos of particular genres and literally brings them all together in a digital collage. A click on the image will explode the image larger on the screen, and double click will bring the user to the actual video on YouTube.

This interface speaks to traditional methods of navigating through different physical photos (like back in the old days) and finding some that catch your eye. As a lean-forward digital experience this is certainly different and worthy of exploring, especially in light of upcoming innovation such as surface computing

Also on that vein, is an interesting mobile site by some guy named Tom Robinson that leverages mobile phone touch screen interfaces and the same kind of navigation shown in CoverPop. Check it out on your iPhone or Android.

For our Future of Television homework, we were asked to elaborate on our earlier design concepts. User Cases (or Personas) are examples of the type of users/audience that would benefit from the concept. User Journeys actually speak to the step by step process of utilizing the product concept. Here’s our submission:

Team Melo

For our post regarding Social Television experiences, a quick Googling on the topic netted this morsel of information about Hulu’s plans to integrate with Facebook, so that groups of users can watch content at the same time and comment/socialize on the content. Both the video and the Facebook feeds are presented on the screen at the same time. The post mentions how this is similar to what CNN did with the Obama Inauguration.

Hulu + Facebook

Check out the Hulu + Facebook app here. Team Melo finds this approach to be more “practical” than futuristic, since it leverages the existing infrastructure in place today. That’s not to say, however, that it’s the best approach, but it seems to make sense for the time being.

Not only is the above article worthy of reviewing, but also some of the reader comments also introduce other concepts such as this which speaks to Twitter and how it generates Spoiler Alerts for viewers who haven’t seen a particular show when it originally airs.

This concept seems to make Twitter equal parts socially conducive and counterproductive. Some times we use Twitter and Facebook to get up-to-date information on popular culture events, such as the trials and tribulations in the most recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy or other popular content.

But in our increasingly multi-tasking and on-demand society, the ability to see updates from friends while the show is airing when you’re not intending to watch it at that time but rather later, makes these kinds of applications counter-productive for the users.

Perhaps someone might devise some form of spoiler blocking utility that finds the references to the most recent episode and hides them from your Facebook/Twitter feed until you’re ready to view them?

Team ‘Melo’s Week 4 Presentation – Joyn.TV

The objective for our Future of Television homework due this week was to conduct market research that supports our initial design concepts.  We created an online survey on Survey Monkey, conducted video interviews and did research on the web.  The result is our presentation below and fine-tuning of our initial concept, now entitled “Joyn.TV”

For our class, we had to come up with initial concept documents. The team was broken up into groups. This is our (Team Carmelo) concept document presentation (initial draft):

One of the issues with mobile devices displaying content is that the act of sharing is inhibited. The concept of crowding around a small screen to view the content between more than 2 people is somewhat limited.

There are now a couple of devices on the market that seem to address that issue. But still nothing close to what we’re all really waiting for, which is the real-life version of the famous scene from the movie Star Wars, in which the hologram of Princess Leia is projected from the dome of R2D2 for Luke Skywalker to watch and learn. I am sure we’re not too far away from that possibility.

The following is a quick brainstorm of ideas in support of our Future of Television class.

Inspirations for future interfaces

Science fiction
- Minority Report

- The Matrix
- Starship Troopers
- Blade Runner
- Yellow book commercial

- Children of Men

Touch screens – hand held – light weight laptop/tablets

Flick through video in the same way you can flick through images on an iphone (touch screen)

Navigating through the television watching experience as if you’re flipping the pages of a book

Personalized simple Video editing – ie, like the new iPhone quicktime interface. the ability to create video mashups quickly and easily

What does the future of zero-rendering-time look like???

The ability to quickly apply different Filters. 3D filters

Breaking about the screen into smaller modules (like boxee), letting those run all at the same time (Direct TV)

Video Scraping
A simple scan button for internet video (like your car radio). Some type of application that reviews all the links that have movies in it, grabs the movies, and inputs them into a queue for viewing.

Building a console interface above the moving images, that allows for the simple execution of payment transactions with fingerprint biometrics

An interface where almost everything in the image is a hyperlink to something else pause the image and hover over the hot spots

Changing the dynamic of scheduling, even within the movie or the television show like Memento…

let a person organize the chapters of a movie quickly to their own liking. making content that supports that concept that can be easily blended together in no matter what order

Opening sourcing video content to multiple parties to determine the best camera angles to tell the story, making a dancing movie in this manner

360 degree video capture and what kind of content would be created as a result of it. — what it could do for sports?

The television experience – a group watching experience in a large room filled with white walls and projections against those walls, every where you look

The future club experience where every wall in the room has a built in projected image interface, like the holodeck on Star Trek and every participant
in the room plays the role of the dj

We have video and storytelling abilities in our group, let’s write a story about the future of television – animate it, make an animatic or a moving comic book
like the spider woman motion comic