ACR

Data Flow in the Living Room

Carl's Work / March 16, 2021 / ACR, blog, mobile, multimodal interaction, remote control, smart tv, TV, voice

The living room has an interesting topology for multimodal interaction. Years ago, you got up and turned the dial directly on the TV. The advent of the remote control allowed you to do that from your seat. Even up to the early-mid 2000s, it was just the remote and TV in the living room – …

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Mobile App Evolution

Carl's Work / January 1, 2019 / ACR, app, iOS, mobile, mobile app, product management, tt

In addition to my company’s old website with community-driven content, we also had a mobile app. Initially there was audio fingerprinting (think Shazam) you could use to listen to what you are watching and it would find and display it. The cost of maintaining the ACR service and the low feature usage led us to …

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