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IMX 2020 - Fostering Diversity and New Ideas within Interactive Media Research

We are keenly focused on celebrating diversity and injecting new communities (and thinking) into the conference..

Blog post on 20 Dec 2019

Designing Navigation for Smart Speakers and Voice Devices

Exploring new ways to discover audio and interact with these types of experiences using only the user's voice.

Blog post on 17 Dec 2019

IRFS Weeknotes #300

Synthetic xmas carols, GAN based quizzes and more!

Blog post on 16 Dec 2019

An Interactive Dating Drama for Smart Speaker and Mobile: 5 Days, 5 Dates

A prototype interactive audio drama that plays across mobile and smart speaker.

Blog post on 12 Dec 2019

A Box of Ideas - Creating New Ways to Generate Good Ideas for ±«Óãtv Box

A short project to think widely about data services.

Blog post on 6 Dec 2019

Object-Based iPlayer - Remote Experience Streaming Tests

Inspired by remote gaming, we're exploring the potential of low-latency streaming to deliver new media experiences at scale.

Blog post on 2 Dec 2019

Human Values: Understanding Audiences Beyond Demographics

Molly and Jane are both 20 year old women - but have different values. Can we understand audiences beyond demographics?

Blog post on 28 Nov 2019

IRFS Weeknotes #299

Microgenres, voice synthesis, and public service games.

Blog post on 27 Nov 2019

Vostok-K Incident - Immersive Spatial Sound Using Personal Audio Devices

Producing, delivering and evaluating our trial which orchestrates phones, laptops, tablets and other devices to create spatial sound - here's a summary of our research.

Blog post on 26 Nov 2019

IP Studio and Beyond: November 2019

The latest details about our work in IP production and broadcast technology.

Blog post on 22 Nov 2019

Recommendations for Designing Audio Augmented Reality Experiences

Some suggestions and design tips for people designing multiplayer experiences in AAR for smart headphones.

Blog post on 19 Nov 2019

Audio Augmented Reality - Developing 'Please Confirm You are not a Robot'

Creating an interactive multiplayer performance to explore what is possible with Audio Augmented Reality.

Blog post on 12 Nov 2019

IRFS Weeknotes #298

Latest sprint notes from the IRFS team featuring music "mix matching" and Audio AR

Blog post on 6 Nov 2019

Cloud-Fit Production Update: Going from Stores to Streams

Building the Stream Packaging Service to pull media from a Media Object Store and stream it in a conventional push-based stream format.

Blog post on 31 Oct 2019

Faster Video Compression Using Machine Learning

We have been testing decision tree algorithms to see if they can make video compression faster and more efficient.

Blog post on 29 Oct 2019