Interface Design for D-TV Browsing & Navigation System

Television / Computer convergence is technologically complete, which makes the TV industry hard for no-technical people to understand. And the viewers are still satisfied with ‘good old fashioned’ linear video for TV. To design an efficient way of massive video content browsing system, we have done background and user research. By analysing the results, we extract key design concepts.

To make a design concept, I made a different type of design and semi-prototype with a few kinds of digital sensor. And finally, we think out a card deck metaphor for navigation. This is ordered by time and channel controlling by vector pad which is a capacitance type force sensor. This prototype was Invited by Microsoft uxtv 08.

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Additional Research

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This sketch is a visual information graph: the object’s shape and colour are changed by information. A funny thing is that I didn’t add any graphic image to make a shape and colour, this was not entirely my invention, the colour code came from Adobe Kuler, which is a famous open colour community, acquired by using proper search words and, the shapes of the objects came from my personal household account database. And when you change the perspective of the view; it shows each different tag with the information. However, it also shows the images as they are changed. I find this an attractive and user friendly aspect of digital media and I hope it works for other people.

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Changable Cube