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NoTube at MIPTV2012

Lora Aroyo will present NoTube at MIPTV2012 as part of the MIPCube innovation lab for future of TV: Friday 30 March 2012, 10:40 AM to 11:20 AM, INNOVATION ALLEY DEMOS #1_CONTENT DISCOVERY – SOCIAL APPS, USER INTERFACES… (Location: Gare Maritime, Innovation Agora) Saturday 31 March 2012, 14:50 PM to … Continue reading

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Beancounter user research part 1: creating social experiences, sharing, privacy, and user control of personal data

NoTube’s Beancounter software is a user-profiling service that implicitly determines a person’s most up-to-date interests based on an aggregation of their existing activities on the Social Web. This profile can then be used as input for personalised TV recommendations. During … Continue reading

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IRT publishes NoTube article in FKT Journal

IRT has published a comprehensive article about NoTube in the current edition of the German-speaking professional journal FKT. An extract of the article which focuses on TV metadata interoperability can be found at http://fkt.schiele-schoen.de/117/17029/FKT21201_55/NoTube_Metadaten_fuer_TV_und_Web.html.

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N-Screen backend: XMPP/Jabber and group chats

The idea of N-Screen (demo) is to have real-time small-group non-text communication - so for example, sharing a programme (or perhaps a specific point in a programme) with a person, with a TV, or with a group, using drag and … Continue reading

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N-Screen: a second screen application for small-group exploration of on-demand content

For our latest social prototype in NoTube we return to the problem of finding interesting things to watch within large video collections, and investigate how working together might help people find something interesting. As we’ve seen, the problem with on-demand … Continue reading

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At IBC? Join us at the NoTube stand!

Find us at Connected World, Hall 13, Stand 202 - opposite the Internet Cafe!

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See NoTube during IFA Berlin

Parallel to the IFA in Berlin, the IEEE will hold the 1st International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE). On September 7, in the session on User Centered Design, Dr Lyndon Nixon of the NoTube project will present “NoTube: the television … Continue reading

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NoTube highlighted in Dutch scientific centre’s annual report

SARA is the Dutch center for scientific computing. They have interviewed NoTube member Dan Brickley about some experiments he has been running on their infrastructure in the context of the NoTube project in their yearly report. Here’s a download link … Continue reading

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Live profile and recommendation evolution

During the just closed NoTube project 2th year review, we showed some real demos involving users interacting with a bunch of different devices/interfaces, that once integrated and consolidated will allow the user to get a new tv experience. Let’s see … Continue reading

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