https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickpiggott/5212959770
Data To Influence Your Environment
Ian Forrester
Senior Firestarter, BBC R&D
@cubicgarden
Discussion stimulus
With internet of things all around us, it is now
possible for your personal data to influence your
environment. Soon, your personal data could be
used to influence how a movie is shown to you!
Let's talk about the implications and ethics of
data being used this way.
how personal data and storytelling can be combined
#qseu2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RlGXcueDss
Object based media
http://thenextweb.com/media/2016/03/09/bbc-r-and-d-object-based-media/
Object media enables
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonjohnson/4987110890
Perceptive drama
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/visual-perceptive-media
Scalable experiences (50000+)
How does it work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKu-b4Afh4
Variations not versions
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/ Interstellar – © 2014 – Paramount Pictures
Variations not versions
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/ Interstellar – © 2014 – Paramount Pictures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/d_lee/2394548742
It’s the small things
Manipulation of audiences feelings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thNvpubJir8 © The Verge
Film has been doing this for decades
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673// : Inside Out – © 2015 - Disney
Memorable narratives experiences
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259711/ Vanilla Sky – © 2001 – Paramount Pictures
Highly relevant
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/ Se7en – © 1995 - New Line Cinema
Relevance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leweb3/6471629995
It will be very hard for people to
watch or consume something
that has not in some sense been
tailored for them
- Eric Schmidt, Google
Some media reaction
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3350076/BBC-experimenting-smart-shows-adapt-personality-male-female.html
Data ethics research
https://www.flickr.com/photos/birgerking/5137440872
Privacy
Security
Ownership
Identity
Data management
Accountability
Data ethics research
Trust is the foundation of the BBC:
we are independent, impartial and honest
https://www.flickr.com/photos/noodlepie/7256071790
No more shared experiences?
This shared experience?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/dec/16/tv-viewing-christmas-netflix-on-demand
A different shared experience?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cjc/3140642627
Real world things
Perceptive Radio
Things playing a role in the narrative
https://www.flickr.com/photos/schoschie/4294160420
Immersive theatre
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ugardener/
Hyper reality media experiences
www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/ - The Game (1997)
Cook Along Learning Experience
Sensor based interaction
http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016-11-bbc-rd-at-mozfest-2016
Hyper reality media nightmares
Experiences which bend to context
Build experiences like these
Discussion stimulus
With internet of things all around us, it is now
possible for your personal data to influence your
environment. Soon, your personal data could be
used to influence how a movie is shown to you!
Let's talk about the implications and ethics of
data being used this way.
@cubicgarden
Thank you for listening… questions?
Ian Forrester
Senior Firestarter, BBC R&D North
@cubicgarden - ian.forrester@bbc.co.uk

Using your data to influence your environment