Ambient TV Description
Television as a medium is growing and changing at a rapid pace these days. Never before have we been presented with so many choices. Digital cable has allowed for more channels in the same space and the Internet is increasing the video content available exponentially. What is needed is a way to organize all this new media that is available to us so we are not overwhelmed by the vast amount of choices. Methods currently being used in the Web 2.0 sphere to organize products/websites/music/etc. can be applied to television watching to give us a more personalized and meaningful experience. My idea is to create an Ambient TV system that will be utilize some of these Web 2.0 tools that have emerged such as collaborative filtering and aspects of social networking and apply them to the traditional medium of television viewing. My goal is to show how TV can evolve and merge with the new technologies and provide a new, customized viewing experience.
You can watch my thesis presentation for this project at http://itp.nyu.edu/thesis/spring2007/stream.php?search=Einstein
Click below to watch a demo of the AmbientTV system.
Screen Shots
Below are screenshots of the application prototype I developed. Access to the prototype itself will be available after the presentation
Designs for the screens and logo were created by David Hultman.