Perceptive Media

"This morning it became apparent that Apple had acquired Emotient, an artificial intelligence startup. This startup works with emotion KPIs, meaning they're in the business of watching your face and body to decide how you feel. With that information, Emotient aims to detect attention, engagement, and sentiment. Implications from their public presentation of business suggests that they've been aiming their business at advertisers - as well as other odd product creators on mobile platforms."

Structure of stories by Tristan Ferne

A Multi-Platform Mobile Sensing Framework for Large-Scale Experiments

"A Multi-Platform Mobile Sensing Framework for Large-Scale Experiments"

"Time is over for shared experiences when watching TV. Based on the answers you give in an app, your listening history, gender, age, or location and time of the day, this video will adjust the story based on your personality taking your mood into account. Two people won't be watching a story unfolding in the same way again and even you might experience a different narrative at another time."

Visual Perceptive Media german blog

The specificity of Facebook's advertising machine lets companies sidestep many potential pitfalls that could prevent them from launching a successful ad campaign. For Universal Pictures, one of the problems Facebook helped them sidestep was the fact that white Americans didn't really know what iconic rap group N.W.A. was, or that Ice Cube and Dr. Dre made music.

Called Pulse, it offers summaries of emotional responses to selected video ads -- but then what?

To this day, its labs are cooking up experiments that may completely change the way we consume audio and video, and I went to take a look at them.

Creating a computer "personality" is as much an art as it is a science, and it's a challenge that more and more software designers are grappling with.

"I gave them an insight into my personality. They gave me a menu to match my tastes."

Cathy Loughran coverage of BBC Data day

"How might writing, reading and the idea of the book itself change when we use technology to design stories, rather than just present them?"

The exciting thing this year is that we're reaching a critical mass of technology adoption for a wealth of new video and audio media experiences - media that responds dynamically to the consumer's attention, engagement and context: Responsive Media.

Tinkering with technology is what we do. Making something innovative, imaginative, going where no man has gone before makes us as happy as cats at Christmas… oh man those Christmas trees!

Whichbook enables millions of combinations of factors and then suggests books which most closely match your needs. Click to open up to 4 sliders and move the to set your choices.

"The BBC is developing personalised dramas, radio shows that talk directly to listeners, and technology to record live events remotely, as it looks to shape the future of broadcasting."

"Alex Farber reports on four projects designed to improve efficiency and evolve storytelling"

Innovations are exciting, but BBC needs to establish itself quickly, says Broadcast editor Chris Curtis

Personality via your music collection