1. 1. Social TV:Linking People and Devices Marie-Jos Montpetit Ph.D.Invited Scientist RLE IMTC 2025 Keynote Address April 7 th2010, 9:20-9:45 am
2. 2. Acknowledgements
   • Prof. Muriel Mdard (MIT RLE)
   • Henry Holtzman (MIT Media Lab)
   • Dr. Andrea Basso (AT&T)
   • MIT Media Lab Social TV Class community
3. 3. Networking went from: PlaceLab cabling
4. 4. To :
5. 5. But is TV still this?
6. 6. That is TV?
7. 7. TV Experiences
   • Mobile
   • • Not just device and networks but people
   • Social (personal)
   • • Not just people but devices and networks
   • And more and more IP based
   • • Both OTT and controlled
   • The anywhere/anytime/any device world
   • is upon us
8. 8. user_creation_swr_m Ref. Nokia, 2009 Lean Forward Lean Back Personal Media Social Media Transaction Media Self Publishing Space Personal Programming Community TV
9. 9. TV Now 27057810.JPG Lean Back Lean Forward & Personalize Lean Back & Socialize
10. 10. Disruptive TV Technologies
    • • Enhanced and interactive experiences
    • • • • Co-creation and story-telling
    • • • • Leveraging time and place shifting
    • • • • Fully use the home device ecosystem
    • • Wireless Internet
    • • • • Common platforms and SDKs
    • • • • Peer to peer
    • • • • Application stores to moving out of the cell phone
    • • High Bandwidth Experiences
    • • • • HD
    • • • • 3D
11. 11. ADHDTVcartoon.gif The Wrong Evolution
12. 12.
    • Social TV Solutions
    • • Linking people
    • • • Stories and interactions
    • • Connecting devices
    • • • The ecosystem
    • • Composing networks
    • • • Enabling the edge
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13. 13. What if Convergence + + + +
14. 14. Created Community Generated Programming?
15. 15. An Ecosystem of Devices nextream_tv.jpg Mike Shafran, Ana Luisa Santos, ReeD Martin,MIT Media Laboratory
16. 16. And a Composition of Networks?
17. 17. Our Research (1)
    • Collaborative applications
    • Content distribution architectures
    • Network/device interconnectivity
    • Green networking
18. 18. Our Research (2)
    • Consider video as another source of information
    • Recognize the importance of wireless for next generation video
    • Enable efficient content distribution
19. 19. Conclusion
    • TV was always social!
    • Social TV now:
    • • Linking people, devices and networks
    • • Liberating content from devices, time and space
    • • Co-creation and advanced storytelling
    • • New business models
    • The future of TV?
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