The Multitasker is a concept for design of a tangible interface for interactive television viewing.

1. Watching Dallas Then
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2. Watching Dallas Now
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3. Tweets are Everywhere
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4. Character Power Visualization
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5. The Viewing Experience Now
1. Keeping score/following power
moves
2. Tweeting responses/cheers and
boos
3. Identifying characters with
people you know
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6. Changing the Dynamic
Instead of this:
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7. Changing the Dynamic
How about this?
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8. Ann Ewing, Sue Ellen’s BFF
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9. The Multitasker:
A Threshold Object for
Friends of Sue Ellen
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10. What does it do?
1. Keeps track of John Ross
2. Communicates with other friends
3. Passes along knowledge that friends
need to know to do their part to
support Sue Ellen’s efforts on his
behalf
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11. How is it used?
1. Viewers join a local chapter of a club, the Dallas Cattle
Baronesses.
2. Viewers obtain a Multitasker.
3. Viewers identify three friends to Multitask with.
4. Multitasking group has usernames and passwords to log
in when watching the show.
5. Multitasking group actually passes on knowledge to a
minor character on the show. This character can affect
the course of action by passing information to a main
character.
6. By moving the color cards on the Multitasker, a machine
readable signal is generated that sends information to
friends and to the minor character.
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12. Use Case Scenario
How can Sue Ellen best help John Ross?
How can friends help find out what really happened?
Is there some small piece of information that a minor character could bring in that
would help resolve this situation?
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13. Use Case Scenario
1. Placing a particular card
vertically sends a signal that
the minor character should
speak to a specific character
represented by the card.
2. If there is a consensus from
all the friends that this
should happen, the minor
character does speak to the
character represented by
the card.
3. Information exchanged
between them may help
Sue Ellen decide what is the
best action.
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