Media Crate: A Tangible Interface for Live Media Production

Tom Bartindale; Jonathan David Hook; Patrick Olivier

doi:10.1145/1517664.1517718

Media Crate: A Tangible Interface for Live Media Production

Tom Bartindale, Jonathan David Hook, Patrick Olivier

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

Live media production -- the presentation of audio-visual content at events such as conferences and concerts -- is a high intensity task where a small production team must interact with an amalgamation of separate hardware tools to transform and direct a variety of media sources to outputs such as large screens, preview monitors, and web-casts. We present Media Crate, a tangible tabletop interface crafted in response to the key actions and needs of live media producers. Using tangibles, previously complex and ambiguous actions can now become collaborative and easy to learn, whilst providing expressive features not present in traditional interfaces. In this paper we give a description of the Media Crate's interface, discuss how knowledge and experience of live media production impacts on the design, and finally present the results of an initial deployment of the system at a live event.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction
Publisher	ACM
Pages	255-262
ISBN (Print)	978-1-60558-493-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1517664.1517718
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	ACM International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2009 - Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: 16 Feb 2009 → 18 Feb 2009

Conference

Conference	ACM International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2009
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cambridge
Period	16/02/09 → 18/02/09

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10.1145/1517664.1517718

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