The end!

Hi!

Well, our project is over, it is finished. It has been a long time since we started, where we put our best effort to come up with awesome ideas for Yle. We tried to explain all this process in our pitching, which you can see below. Hope you like it! At least, for us, the experience of pitching has been really good and it helps us a lot to know how to show our product.

We really like to see some of our ideas implemented in the future, because we think, and some users do too, that the challenges can be a really good way to get audience engaged with the shows. Even if is not in live. Personally, we would love to compete with some of our friends and get rewards from Yle.

We have added our presentation here in case you want to see our design. Feel free to contact with us for anything! We want to see our product in the streets, so tell us if you have interest!

Best wishes to Yle and Demola. It was a pleasure.

The mid-pitching and the final idea

The mid-pitching is done and now let's go forward!

After the no-slide-pitching it was time to get more specific with out ideas
and do a 3-minute pitching speech with slides. It was hard to choose only one
idea since we had developed as many as we could. There is something in all
of them that we would have liked to show the others, but in the end, there was
time only for one.

We chose one of our main ideas, "the Hunger games", the point collecting-idea
that we had already developed a bit further than others. By using a scenario
we presented our great idea to the audience and the judges. The judges gave us
some very valuable feedback and and things to think about.

In a meeting with our YLE project partner Arttu and the other teams we discussed
about the main ideas that all the four teams have created during this autumn.
In this meeting was also decided which idea each team will take and develop further.
We have now the final goal: to create a way the audience can compete with each
other for example by using points or some other way.

We have developed some mock up screens and are currently testing it with end users..

- Team YnLivE

Hunger games!

Hello again!
We had an amazing meeting with other Live interaction with Yle-groups last week where we could share our ideas and start focusing in some for the mid-pitching event!

Although we are pretty sad of not be able to present all our ideas, we decided to focus in our "Hunger games" idea. Don't be afraid! If you have watched the film or read the books, we are not planning to hurt our competitors :D. We want to give the audience a chance to change the course of the show! How? Well, we know that you do not want to spend your money for buying a t-shirt for the competitors, but we are planning to give you virtual points from as usual action as watching a show! Now you can turn watching TV into a big game!

By using the points you collect you can help competitors by "buying" them items, trainers etc. with your points. You are also able to vote what's going to happen in shows: what kind of tasks you want competitors to perform, what kind of ending or twist in the plot you want to see.You can also collect point from commenting a show, inviting your friends to watch shows as well as using Yle Arenas online services. The more active you are, the more points you have, and so the more you can influence shows. You can combine your points with other peoples if you don't have enough points to perform the action you want.

Register in the Yle website, create your account, and start winning points. Link with your social media account and let your friends to see what you are watching, and see what they are watching. And this is only a start, the possibilities are limitless!

Next step
Next we are going to create some scenarios based on our idea and prepare our 3-minute mid-pitching speech to get some feedback.

- Team YnLivE

Playbook review, demola jam and pitching!

Last two weeks saw a lot of action at Demola and our team was able to get a lot a value from it.

We had a good playbook review with our coordinator Janne and our partner Arttu. Having this discussion with our peer group helped us to share and improve our understanding on the goals of the project and the target audience. We were able to list down improvements to be made on our playbook. The review session ended with a really useful talk with our partner who encouraged us to go to the streets and understand the behavior of the target audience.  

Demola Jam : We had lot of activities in this event such as prototype building, pitching ( 5 sec, 30 sec and 1 min) and user interviews&feedback. Unfortunately, we do not have any pictures of our prototype, but we think we managed to express the main goal of our project with it. 

We had prepared a questionnaire earlier for conducting user interviews. It also included some of our basic ideas for sole purpose of getting feedback. We went to a nearby mall to do the interview which gave us a lot of insight on how the users perceived the whole concept of live interaction. We got really valuable and varying feedback from different people which  we later shared with our peer team as well. As our partner said, we could obtain good results from the interviews and even though it led to the killing of some of our darling ideas, it gave us a better perspective for future ideas. Also, we got really good feedback including some of our ideas in the questionnaire.

Finally, last Wednesday we did our pitching event, where we wanted to show the audience what “live interaction” means and how it will affect their lives in the TV context. We came up with the idea of letting the audience interact in our pitching and let them to select who will give the pitching. We think that we were able to transmit our goal. 

Working hours so far

Next step

We wish to perform one more brainstorming activity with colleagues and potential users before starting to build scenarios and mockups based on our ideas. The long term plan would be get these mockups for field testing and reiterate the whole process.

-Team YnLivE

Getting started: Connecting You 'N' LivE

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