FascinatE

The FascinatE project will develop a system to allow end-users to interactively view and navigate around an ultra-high resolution video panorama showing a live event, with the accompanying audio automatically changing to match the selected view. The output will be adapted to their particular kind of device, covering anything from a mobile handset to an immersive panoramic display. At the production side, this requires the development of new audio and video capture systems, and scripting systems to control the shot framing options presented to the viewer. Intelligent networks with processing components will be needed to repurpose the content to suit different device types and framing selections, and user terminals supporting innovative interaction methods will be needed to allow viewers to control and display the content.The Interactive Institute´s involvement: We will do research on elicitating the requirements from professional TV-producers and from there suggest how to design their interface techniques that will be used to produce the broadcast. We will also conduct similar research to generate interface techniques for non-professionals, that is both amateurs with an interest in user generated TV, and regular TV-viewers.