Hulya, HyeJin, Sanjay and I met today to pull our user research and initial thoughts together. We have a few primary concepts:
-skype meets stadium / living room
-sitcom groups go online
-tv betting (wild)
and I have here my stream of thought / notes below as well.
we like the built-in functionality of skype. we recognize that netflix, hulu, cbs, are doing most everything already. a facebook app could make sense for the social aspect of the project, but it’s been overdone perhaps and could be very difficult. we want to sortof combine remotely connecting couch potatoes while giving users more control. creating a following is another train of thought. answers to what we can do while watching include tv/movie trivia, polling viewers, trash talking, linguistic mashups. working with movies, sitcoms, sports, news might or might not matter in terms of the scope of our design / concept. in terms of groups, we have people gathering in cinemas for movies, fans gathering to watch sports in bars and in stadiums, but not really people getting connected while watching sitcoms in their living rooms. the mobile consideration doesnt seem to be one we want to deal with at this stage.