Interactive Television
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Mess TV: SMS and MMS community television
A nightly community TV show on TV Norge, running from 2am to noon the next day, carried largely by SMS and MMS messages submitted from mobile phones. I rebranded the show against the TV Norge visual identity, refined the SMS and MMS interaction scenarios, and advised on linear broadcast and interactive content.
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Interaction and narrative workshop
Notes from a lecture given at Channel 4 in London in February 2002, as part of the Mesh Scheme for digital animation filmmakers. The lecture is aimed at designers and filmmakers thinking about how to make narratives that involve user or audience interaction. Ideologies, examples, processes and the practicalities of stories that aren’t linear. Full notes from the lecture are here .
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Honeysphere collaborative storytelling platform
A platform for collaborative storytelling on interactive television, audience members contributing to an unfolding narrative through a shared interface. A small team at Central Saint Martins researched the state of the field: existing web-based projects in community, gaming, multi-user space, and interactive narrative. The output was a research archive and a set of design patterns for collaborative television software. A 1999 student project at Central Saint Martins, London, by a team of six including me and Jack Schulze . Interactive television, in 1999, meant set-top boxes with return channels, BSkyB’s OpenTV platform, and WebTV, the technical ground was genuinely new. The project won the London Institute Award for Innovation. We presented the findings publicly at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2000.