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Be part of our user research into Social Web & TV

Posted on February 24, 2012

Please help us with our user research by taking a moment of your time to fill in our survey to collect opinions about the implications of integrating the Social Web with TV; including attitudes to privacy, sharing of personal data, and … Continue reading →

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Visualisation of key findings from N-Screen user testing

Posted on January 20, 2012

You can read a more detailed description of the results in a previous blog post.

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Preliminary findings of N-Screen user testing

Posted on December 12, 2011

Libby and I recently spent two days testing NoTube’s ‘N-Screen’ prototype with members of the public at the BBC R&D user testing lab in London. As Libby has described previously on this blog, N-Screen is a second screen prototype application … Continue reading →

Posted in Recommendations, Second screens, Showcase, Social TV, User Experience | 1 Comment

Designing a new user interface for NoTube’s Beancounter

Posted on October 31, 2011

Managing the large volumes of data generated by the Social Web presents many challenges. In considering the user experience of NoTube’s Beancounter we have been thinking about how to present this kind of data to users in meaningful ways, as … Continue reading →

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Finding interesting new programmes – trial results

Posted on July 1, 2011

In a previous blog post about a NoTube demo for browsing an archive of BBC programmes using Linked Data techniques, I discussed the potential role of serendipity in bringing people’s attention to ‘surprisingly good’ content that they didn’t already know about. At the time … Continue reading →

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Results of second screen usability study

Posted on June 20, 2011

The group of Masters students at the VU University Amsterdam has now completed their project on usability heuristics for TV second screens. As described previously, the students initially developed various ideas for future second screen scenarios based on brainstorming sessions, literature … Continue reading →

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Video: NoTube’s approach to TV recommendations

Posted on May 27, 2011

Michele recently described the latest NoTube demo for TV recommendations, which was shown at the Project Review in early May. Since then we’ve made a video of the demo, which explains how the project has integrated three different approaches to … Continue reading →

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Future second screen scenarios

Posted on April 8, 2011

An enthusiastic group of six Information Science Masters students at the VU University Amsterdam are now half-way through their assignment looking at the usability aspects of augmenting TV with second screen experiences for the NoTube project. They have been concentrating … Continue reading →

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Privacy revisited

Posted on February 22, 2011

Early on in the NoTube project we asked how we address the challenge that people want personalisation without any compromise to their privacy. We posed this question in the context of the NoTube Beancounter, a service for aggregating and analysing … Continue reading →

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On serendipity

Posted on February 4, 2011

One of our more recent NoTube demos was inspired by an XKCD cartoon which prompted us to ask: can we make a large video collection interesting enough so that people keep browsing rather than give up? As we’ve said before, … Continue reading →

Posted in Demos, Linked Data, Recommendations, Thinking Out Loud, User Experience | 5 Comments