Unexpected Media

Innovation Labs: outcomes of 2006 series

10 of the projects developed in the pilot series of Innovation Labs are still in development with the BBC. One in three (there were 30 participants in the 2006 programme) is a much higher rate than I’d anticipated. It remains to be seen how many of them will go through to full production after the proof-of-concept phase.

The projects (and the development funding allocated the teams) are:

Technophobia: £15K
A CPS tool to help local sports clubs feed info to bbc.co.uk.

i-Tabloid: £33K
A navigation tool to help users with learning difficulties access bbc.co.uk content using visual icons/imagery.

aMap: 18K
An argument mapping tool to illustrate complex arguments.

Ymogen: £35K
A set of geo -mobile tools to capture and illustrate athletes training.

Bleep/Synergy: £10K
A “track by track” music education/making tool/platform

Luckybite/Kidsize £30K
A set of tools to make CBBC content more accessible for the under 4s.

Coolbook/Headshift £20K
A social bookmarking game for teens.

Dubit: £20K
Visual navigation/contextual search application

Poke/Amberlight: £25K
Recommendation engine base on ‘taste profiles’

StarDotStar: £20K
A tool to capture and illustrate audience feedback via mobiles in real time. (A prototype is planned for Eurovision 2007)