Technology is changing our lives but what about our homes? This short interactive cinematic experience asks just how much does your living room know about you? https://www.fact.co.uk/projects/the-living-room-of-the-future.aspx

1. Ian Forrester
@cubicgarden
BBC Senior Firestarter
State of the art: Living room of the future

2. Research aims
● Exploring Human Data Interaction (HDI) to understand its
feasibility and the perception and attitudes of the audience
● Early understanding of the technological possibilities of a trusted
data ecosystem in a connected environment
● Exploring personalised experiences for small groups of people

3. What is the living room of the future?
● Public facing research demonstrator
● Real world feasibility testing (HDI model & OBM tools)
● Feedback for HDI implementation using IOT devices
● Technical framework for tools & a community of practice

4. OBM, HDI, ???

5. Object Based Media
@cubicgarden | https://thenextweb.com/media/2016/03/09/bbc-r-and-d-object-based-media/

6. Media + Metadata = Objects
The idea behind ‘object-based’ media is that you take all the
assets for a given TV or radio show – the video clips, the
accompanying audio, any music soundtrack, and extras like
subtitles and sign language translations
Wrap it up in useful metadata and then use software to ‘remix’
it when needed
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickpiggott/5212959770

7. Media
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/adelinapeltea/9026208637/

8. Metadata
Red Tile 2 x 1
Yellow Brick 1 x 1@cubicgarden

9. Objects make the story
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/adelinapeltea/9026208637/

10. Object based media
@cubicgarden | https://github.com/bbc/VideoContext

11. Ethical use of adaptive media
@cubicgarden
OBM HDI
Adaptive media, data and context

12. Data, ethics and personalisation
@cubicgarden | http://www.adweek.com/digital/bbcs-experimental-perceptive-radio-will-personalize-content-149759/

13. Data ethics research
Trust is the foundation of the BBC:
we are independent, impartial and honest
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/noodlepie/7256071790

14. Ethics of personal data videos
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015-01-the-ethics-of-data-videos

15. Exploring legibility, agency and negotiability
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2015-12-data-makes-a-story-mozfest-workshop

16. Human Data Interaction
@cubicgarden | http://hdiresearch.org/

17. How collaboration works in the real world

18. Perceptive Radio
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/perceptive-radio

19. Made in Liverpool
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/perceptive-radio

20. Perceptive Radio 2
http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/perceptive-media(ca8f7144-86d4-4b74-a36a-a5473343b395).html

21. @cubicgarden
Adaptive media & IOT working together?
OBM HDI IOT

22. Personal data + narrative + physical objects = ?
@cubicgarden | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RlGXcueDss

23. Implementation of HDI
@cubicgarden | https://www.databoxproject.uk/about/
● The Databox envisions an open-source personal networked
device, augmented by cloud-hosted services, that collates,
curates, and mediates access to an individual’s personal data by
verified and audited third party applications and services.

24. Databox project
@cubicgarden | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJQiIrkJniU

25. Homelab kitchen experiment
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016-11-bbc-rd-at-mozfest-2016

26. Databox with CAKE objects
@cubicgarden | https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016-11-bbc-rd-at-mozfest-2016

27. Why the living room?

28. A place for shared experiences
@cubicgarden

29. The shared experience?

30. “You had to be there”
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/tedconference/22645546430

31. “You had to be there”
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/tedconference/22645546430

32. @cubicgarden
Adaptive immersive experiences
OBM HDI IOT

33. No more shared experiences?

34. Remember this?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/dec/16/tv-viewing-christmas-netflix-on-demand

35. Our living rooms have changed
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cjc/3140642627

36. The internet of things, needs a narrative?
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/schoschie/4294160420

37. Hyper-reality?
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/schoschie/4294160420

38. Support from FACT
@cubicgarden | FACT’s film talent development programme

39. Support from the British Council
@cubicgarden | https://www.flickr.com/photos/37996583811@N01/29758741765/ | https://www.slideshare.net/cubicgarden/perceptive-media-ethics-dreams-hyper-reality

40. Partners & collaborators
@cubicgarden
● Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT)
● Mixed Reality Lab Nottingham University (Databox)
● Imagination Lancaster University
● University of York’s Digital Creativity Labs (DC labs)
● British Council’s PlayUK programme

41. Sarajevo unlimited workshop
@cubicgarden

42. Sarajevo unlimited workshop
@cubicgarden

43. West balkans residents
@cubicgarden | Mladen Rakonjac & Ilija Tiricovski

44. Working in Liverpool
@cubicgarden

45. Working in Liverpool
@cubicgarden

46. Living room complete storyboard
@cubicgarden

47. https://twitter.com/carolinemeaby/status/982481189779988480

48. Big thanks!!!

49. Foundation for Art & Creative Technology
● Foundation for Art & Creative Technology
○ Roger McKinley
○ Tom Rowlands
○ Pavel Prokopic

50. Mixed reality lab, Nottingham University
● Mixed Reality Lab Nottingham University
○ Prof. Andy Crabtree
○ Dr James Colley
○ Neelima Sailaja

51. British Council
● Support from The British Council’s PlayUK programme
○ Caroline Meaby
○ Amila Lagumdzija
○ Milan Lucic
○ Emir Omeragic
● Winning residents
○ Ilija Tiricovski
○ Mladen Rakonjac

52. Imagination, Lancaster University
● Imagination Lancaster University
○ Prof. Paul Coulton
○ Dr Adrian Gradinar

53. Digital creativity labs, University of York
● University of York’s Digital Creativity Labs (DC labs)
○ Dr Davy Smith

54. Immersive experiences research
https://ceprogramme.com/immersive-experiences/#funding
● Delivered using funds from the Arts and Humanities Research
Council (AHRC)

55. Ian Forrester
@cubicgarden
ian.forrester@bbc.co.uk
Thank you for listening, go experience!