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We hope you can join us tomorrow in person or on line for our presentation about the Live Video Revolution, a look at how new video technology is transforming not just broadcast news but all journalism.
This is a presentation of Media X at Stanford University and The Carole Kneeland Project. Our hashtag for this event is #mediaxstanford and we will be checking that for feedback and questions during the session.
Media X is Stanford’s catalyst for industry and academic research into the impact of information and technology on society. Drawing on the capabilities of researchers across the campus, Media X looks to provide ground-breaking insights and identify new opportunities.
The Kneeland Project’s mission is to assure ethics and excellence in local journalism and to help news executives embrace and manage change. We think that this hour long discussion is very much focused on a topic that will change newsrooms...something that recognizes the incredible impact that the larger issue of broadband is going to have society.
This fast paced discussion will review the basics for those not familiar with live video streaming technologies but will also have the very latest information on new products and software that was just announced at the National Association of Broadcasting Radio Television Digital News Association convention in Las Vegas.
We will have a live audience and a number of panelists and presenters here at Stanford. We are here in the Universities working laboratory for teaching technology, the Peter Wallenberg Learning Theater which is designed for live streaming presentations and multi-media experiments. For more information on the hall: http://wallenberg.stanford.edu/
I am your moderator, I'm Andrew Finlayson, a Knight Fellow at Stanford University. Full disclosure: I was a VP of News at Fox Chicago and most recently I was the director of online content for the Fox Television Station group, I remain a consultant to the company while here at Stanford but this presentation is not connected to News Corp and all opinions expressed in this blog are mine alone. I also was a co-founder of a website called livenewscameras.com and I run the live video streaming group on linked.com which you are all invited to become part of.
Enough of me, we have some incredible experts with us tomorrow.
Joining us in person is Gannon Hall, Kyte Chief Operating Officer, one of the companies that works with newsrooms around the world on live streaming of events and stories using a couple of technologies we’ll demonstrate.
Tal Shalom, Vidyo Vice President, a streaming video company that was just described by the Wall Street Journal as The Next Big Thing, which means they are one of the top fifty venture backed companies in America. He’ll be making a new product announcement today that will be of interest to newsrooms.
Michael Liebhold, Institute for the Future Senior Researcher, a group just down the street from Stanford. Mike has worked with some of the leading media companies and one of the authors of a major report on live video streaming technology and he is also a true pioneer in topic of video on line.
We have a number of other presenters that will have join us during the hour. This workshop will be followed by a much larger discussion of live video/telepresence hosted by Chuck House, the Executive Director of Media X. Hope you can join us for both discussions.
Labels: collaboration, journalism, live streaming, media x, real time video, telepresence, video
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Virtual Medical Environments workshop draws an enthusiastic crowd
I was blown away by the response to a fairly late post inviting people to a workshop on Monday, March 8th to discuss opportunities and barriers in bringing virtual worlds to healthcare. We (the three organizers) expected about ten people and got almost fifty. Clearly there is a pent up desire to do something in this space and perhaps a lack of clarity in how to go about it.
The workshop was held at Stanford University the day before the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to capitalize on the presence of the thousands of GDC participants converging on the Bay area. Eilif Trondsen, one of the three workshop organizers, laid out the problem in terms of Geoffrey Moore's "chasm" model, claiming that VMEs are still churning in the pre-chasm stage and that it might take a technology shift, such as browser-based easy access to VMEs, for products to cross the chasm to widespread use.
Dan Gillette, the second organizer, presented his company's work on VMEs for mental health problems. Their product, InWorld, while still pre-chasm, appears to have enough following that it might leap across. Dan then moderated a series of presentations by participants on their projects and products, across a range of applications, many in early stages of development.
Dan Gillette | InWorld |
Heli Ruokamo | Evaluating Virtual and Simulation-based Learning Environments: How to Support Meaningful Learning? |
Mette Terp Hoybe | Randomized study of the use of internet-based support groups in Danish cancer survivors |
Laura Kusumoto | Delivering training in virtual worlds - co-located versus distributed training |
AJung Moon | Nonverbal human-robot interaction and opportunities for cognitive rehabilitation in virtual world |
Francisco Grajales III | Lessons Learned in the Translation of Trauma Scenarios from Haptic to 3D Virtual Simulators |
W. LeRoy Heinrichs | Focusing on Immersion in VME's |
Damon Hernandez | Learning Bones of the Body |
Paul Brown | Building Digital Anatomical Databases for Simulation |
David Gaba | Opportunities & Barriers: A Medical School Perspective |
Henrik Bennetsen | Sirikata: Virtual Worlds as a native web technology |
In the second part of the workshop, the focus shifted to business models and revenue generation. Walter Greenleaf, of Virtually Better and InWorld, spoke in some detail about the economic characteristics of their market, the mental health physician, the benefits that they hoped their product would bring, and the realities of selling into this market. We could have spent a lot more time dissecting and understanding Walter's information but the workshop was running out of time. We closed the workshop with Stewart Guenther describing how a funder approaches analyzing the fundability of a company and a product. Again, much wisdom there but no time to discuss and analyze.
To capture some of the details and ideas generated, the participants are being asked to post to this blog. The goal was and remains to generate a roadmap for VMEs. We hope that the posts and comments will help in generation of this roadmap.
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Labels: benkyo-kai, business cluster, data-driven, innovation, media x, stanford, technology, visualization
posted by Martha Russell @ 11:52 AM
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I've been doing a lot of thinking about changes needed in media metrics. This workshop is a follow-on of the 2008 workshop, Monetizing Audience Engagement, which I co-led with Kate Niederhoffer.
Marc Smith (Telligent Systems) and I will co-lead this workshop on August 5-6 at Stanford University. The workshop will include hands-on tutorial for using the free software NodeXL to vitualize signatures of social roles in online conversations. Marc Smith has pioneered analytical processes to do this. They use NodeXL. The two day agenda of presentations and discussions will focus on these questions:
1. How does simultaneous media use influence the effectiveness of advertising?
2. What media metrics are most meaningful for management decisions?
3. How can social media metrics be used by media planners and community managers?
4. Which metrics are most powerful for mobile media and online search?
5. How can virtual currencies and learning management systems be leveraged as metrics for immersive environments?
Don Schultz, Northwestern University, will provide context for media choices in a consumer-controlled marketplace by presenting results of his panel studies in the US and China. These studies report background/foreground use of mutlitasking multimedia across generations and gender - with important implications for engagement metrics. Two panels - one on social media and one on immersive environments - will present trends in the metrics that are evolving, although far from standardized at this time:
Several of the people who participated in the 2009 Persuasive Technology panel will also participate, providing updates on their work: Michael Wu from Lithium (Community Health Index); Blaine Baggett from JPL/NASA; Louis-David Mangin from GrinShot; and Maury Giles from Pursuit. Gary Wolf, WIRED, will talk about trends in self measurement. Chunlin Duan, visiting from South China University of Technology, and Neil Rubens, visiting from Tokyo University of Electro-Communication, will discuss metrics for mobile media. David Shamma, Yahoo Research, will talk about synergies between social and search metrics.
Media X is a membership community. The summer workshops are one of the program offerings by Media X that are open to nonmenbers.
Labels: analytics, audience, engagement, immersive environment, management, Marc Smith, Martha Russell, media x, metrics, social media, stanford, Telligent, wallenberg
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Labels: collaboration, media x, metrics, semantics, silicon valley, social media, stanford, teams, technology transfer, virtual environments, virtual worlds, visualization, wallenberg, workshops
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Media X is Stanford's catalyst for industry and academic research into the impact of information and technology on society. Drawing on the world class capabilities of 93 Stanford researchers in labs across the campus, Media X stimulates fundamental insights into innovation, accelerating successful outcomes. Media X research reduces risks for its member companies with cutting-edge knowledge on people and technology, providing ground-breaking insights and identifying novel opportunities.
