Ok this is going to be the last “vain” post about succesful EDiT deployments.

Studio1 TV is a rather new digital broadcaster targeting northern Italy, they wanted a “real” multitouch experience for their daily press cut, and here we go.
It’s interesting because with the DTTV revolution, broadcasters are looking for more integrated systems and our software BroadCanvas is particularly flexible in terms of “styles of use”.

So today you see a rotation-fixed canvas meant for a single conductor, tomorrow you may look at a talk show with many people playing with media. Just have a look.

From the beginning of march, EDiT interactive table is being featured in Mattino5 show on Mediaset’s Canale5.

Federica Panicucci is the perfect user / conductor, she is brave, dynamic, and her beautiful hands moving on the interactive surface are a pleasure to look at :)

InformaSistemi managed to deploy this project thanks to our partners Sysline, we shared a very rich experience in the broadcasting world merging our know-hows, and i have a feeling this is just the beginning.

As you may have noticed, TV shows are increasingly adopting interactive technology, nonetheless many broadcasters are still reluctant to “depend” on it like high-end devices (ex: digital mixers).
Broadcasters need robustness, and special hardware to wire in their infrastructure, things that are now possible with EDiT SDI version.
Stay tuned.

November 19-21 2009, 21 excellent speakers in front of a thousand people highligthed passages of their lives, trying to convey the essence of their research towards excellence.
The event, called 21 minutes, is an open project that will continue and develop during the years.

I have been asked to produce an interactive sketching experience using multitouch technology, that would help the speakers and the chairman Patrizio Paoletti to draw knowledge structures during the seminar. We brought an EDiT unit there, right side of the stage, and Pierpaolo Vittoria (a trained mind mapper) used my sketching application.

We had no precise plot, most of the speakers improvised or changed their mind just before the presentations, we had video output sent to the main screen.. a real live experience.
I am very satisfied with the whole event, since the contents were so high and inspiring, the audience became involved very soon with questions and a lot of social interaction during the breaks.

A lot of people came to see the technology, the “multitouch” was not much mentioned or noticed, instead the “creative, brainstorming, dynamic, shareable” modality was considered something new and unseen, and generated many ideas and connections.
Also Gilead Sher, an important Israeli negotiator and one of the first guests, appreciated the philosophy behind the application and played a lot with it.

Will playful and natural technology/design help people towards a better communication in order to understand each other?
I do hope so, and the research continues.

EDiT, the interactive table i’ve been engineering for InformaSistemi, has been highlighted as one of the innovations of Smau 2009.
Can we still talk about innovations when all the HCI world is turning its eyes towards the “touch”.

In my opinion: yes. Touch technologies will become mainstream in 2010/2011, and there are a lot of them, while operating systems are updating their widgets accordingly. However this does not mean that all applications we use today will be magically improved by enabling multiple touches.
My forecast is, instead, an initial frenzy in creating new apps (see the iPhone experience) where the quantity/quality ratio will also become a factor of criticism towards the real need for the multitouch applications.

Multi-touch is cool ok, but multi-user is the real change.

EDiT has been designed from the ground up with this idea in mind, so it still deserves the “innovative” adjective (IMHO of course).