'Beyond the Red Button'
Reaching new audiences through interactive TV
An Afternoon Seminar and Workshop
Tuesday 4 December 2007: 2.00pm (Registration from 1.30pm)
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Seminar Speakers
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Jonathan
Drori
Jonathan is Director of Changing Media Ltd, a London consulting group.
Previously he was founder and Director of Culture Online at the DCMS
(Department for Culture, Media and Sport), where a team of creative
media and technology specialists commissioned large projects which
won many international awards. At the BBC he was Editorial Director
for BBC Online and before that the BBC’s Head of Digital Media
and Learning Channels. As an Executive Producer, Jon was responsible
for more than fifty popular BBC TV series in science and the arts which
won many important awards. He has been a judge for BAFTA, the RTS and
most recently for the Grierson Documentary Awards. He is Visiting Professor
at Bristol University, specialising in misconceptions in science, and
adviser to Government and large public bodies on new media, audience
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Gaby
Chiappe
Gaby Chiappe has written extensively for television dramas including Eastenders, Casualty and Holby
City. She is currently working on the BBC's adaptation of 'Larkrise
to Candleford' to be transmitted in the New Year. She was recently
awarded a PAWS research and development grant along with Tim Wright
and Paul Dornan to develop the multi-platform series, 'The Department
of Now'. As a writer, Gaby is interested in myth, Victorian Gothic
and contemporary cultural anxiety around science and technology. |
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Paul
Dornan
Paul has written extensively for television drama, most recently an
8 part interactive drama for BBC/Endemol called 'Signs of Life',
just released online, and is currently working on 'The Department
of Now', a multiplatform interactive drama project. Other credits
include eight episodes of 'My Wonderful Life' and 'Holding
the Baby' for Granada, and Creator of 'I Dream', a thirteen
part children's drama for BBC1. Paul also runs format development company
The Comedy Bank, has tutored on writing comedy drama for the Arvon
Foundation and is a regular visiting lecturer at the University of
Warwick. |
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Tim
Wright
Tim Wright is a digital writer, an interactive producer and a director
of XPT Ltd. His writing credits include two BAFTA-winning interactive
projects: the comedy self help disk 'Mind Gym' and web & email
drama 'Online Caroline'. He also co-developed, devised and
scripted the BAFTA nominated science-learning Web drama 'Planet
Jemma'. In 2004/5, he created the popular collaborative web fiction
and Sony Award-nominated BBC Radio 4 play 'In Search of Oldton',
pioneering the use of user generated content within a narrative fiction
format. He is currently interested in talking fridges and going to
the moon. |
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Andrew
Chitty
Andrew Chitty is Managing Director of Illumina Digital, one of the
UK's leading interactive production companies specialising in the design
and delivery of broadband learning experiences including www.stagework.org,
winner of the 2005 BAFTA and World Summit Awards for learning, www.careersWales.com also
a BAFTA winner and the BBC's forthcoming online soap opera Wannabes.
Prior to founding Illumina in 1998 Andrew was editor of BBC2's The
Net, Senior Education Producer (Science) for Granada TV and a producer
of interactive and TV science documentaries for Horizon, Channel 4
and Microsoft. His educational science programming has received recognition
from the European Broadcasting Union, Royal Televisions Society, British
Environmental Media Association as well as winning the NHK (Japan)
Prize. Andrew lectures in interactive production on the EU EMMDIS programme
and in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art, is chair of
Content Lab and a member of the board off Skillset, the Sector Skills
Council for the Audio Visual Industries. |
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Terry
Marsh
Terry is Director of the WISE Campaign (Women into Science, Engineering
and Construction). After lecturing in statistics at Surrey University,
Terry joined the BBC as a data analyst, moving on to produce award-winning
science and technology programmes for the BBC’s Computer Literacy
Project. As Head of Schools’ Programming she became a specialist
in change management, diversity, and information system. Subsequently
she has advised on digital projects with a range of clients including
Granada, Pearson, Prudential, News International and City and Guilds,
also delivering two major digital education projects for the DfES.
Terry is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society, a member of the
IET, and a Visiting Fellow at Surrey University. |
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Professor
Angela Sasse
Angela is Professor of Human-Centred Technology at UCL (University
College London). She read psychology in Germany and holds an M.Sc.
in Occupational Psychology from Sheffield University, and a PhD in
Computer Science from the University of Birmingham. She started as
Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at UCL in November 1990.
Her research interests focus on how people communicate and use technologies.
She has researched user experiences and service requirements for IP
and mobile multimedia services, especially Mobile TV and IPTV. In particular,
what types of services do people want? When and where will they use
them? What constraints does this put on the technical solutions to
deliver them? |
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