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I was introduced to a new platform for World Interaction Design Day (IxDD). While attendees viewed our stream on Vimeo, we were producing it in StreamYard.

While it is only fully functional in Chrome, I must say they’ve done an exquisite job designing the tool. It’s intended for managing a stream with multiple people speaking and screen sharing. It makes it really simple to swap people in and out of the stream, to change who is given prominence, and to adjust views with combinations of speakers and slides. Most changes are made with a single click, and elements in the stream can be rearranged by dragging them. It’s pretty amazing what they’ve accomplished in a web browser. The interaction is “smooth as butter.”

It’s also quite simple to switch to video bumpers and interstitial overlays, pop up banners, and swap the background. It was perfect for running a block of talks followed by a Q&A with a moderator and all the speakers.

I can tell you now from experience that you should have more than one person managing a stream if it’s going to be as complex a production as ours. As easy as StreamYard is to use, I had way too many plates to keep spinning. If you are going to be doing any speaking on the stream, you should let someone else manage it. I was prepping the upcoming speaker, watching time and adjusting the stream for the current speaker, communicating with my team in multiple Slack channels, and communicating with other upcoming speakers via my phone.

I do have a few feature requests for StreamYard.

Allow for audio communication between people who are backstage. I know this is tricky—you don’t want to accidentally speak on the stream—but it would be so much easier than having to type to them in the private chat or through some other means altogether.

Don’t automatically send a screen share to the stream. Just because I’m managing the stream doesn’t mean I want my screen to take over when I share it. I want to be able to get it ready while something else is up, just like the guests.

9.5 hour stream comprised of 15 presentations from North America with 3,778 views

19 consecutive hours of programming across 6 regions worldwide

Just over 100 sessions in 30+ countries producing 40+ hours of content

13,176 viewers across all platforms

That was incredible… and exhausting.

Goodnight.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 29th, is World Interaction Design Day. Organized by IxDA in cooperation with Adobe, it will be starting in Sydney at 2:00 am ET. It’s going to include Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Jakarta, and Hanoi. The Europe stream will kick off with London, Budapest, and Dublin. Then the Africa / Middle East region will join in with Amman, Cape Town, and Port Harcourt. Here in North America, we will start our stream at noon ET and run until 9:15 with participants from every timezone in our region, and Latin America will have their stream running in parallel.

This is an epic endeavor. The theme is Culture & Sustainability, and the quality of the programming is quite strong. Did I mention it’s free?

Check out the program here. The streams will be published on Vimeo. All of the talks will be made available as individual videos after the event.

The interactions take place via an Interactive Kiosk which seeks people for help

The process then follows by showing the potential donors the NEED which has been requested by the victims themselves so that there is complete transparency in the required necessities

Donors get to see the total amount dynamically as they keep adding things to donate

They get the option to pay via QR codes(UPI/Wallets), Credit cards or Debit cards seamlessly

Next, the ‘now’ converted donors get the feedback visually for tracking their donations and also get notified by SMS for further tracking until delivery

Our process promises to make a Transparent model of transaction with timely updates. It also diminishes the irrelevant donations by taking orders from the victims. There would be a Kiosk for Donors, a Web-portal for the sellers (integration with their repository), an Application for the Victims to order their necessities from the nearest campsite and, an Application for the Volunteers/Employees working for Disaster Relief who would be scanning and moving around the Packages

PRODUCT PLACEMENT

Here’s a look at the second render of the toy that listens..

Early life adversity is a major risk factor for the development of psychological and behavioral problems later in life. Higher rates of depression, suicidal tendencies, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and aggressive behavior have been reported in adults who experienced childhood maltreatment.

Traumatic childhood events also contribute to increased drug use and dependence. Initiation of drug-taking behavior begins at a much younger age in those who’ve experienced childhood trauma. Exposure to stressful events in childhood can increase the impact of stressful events throughout life. Add divorce or unemployment to childhood trauma and someone can be more likely to develop psychological disorders or addiction.

Juno is a companion toy that encourages children to share their thoughts and stories. Juno understands the child’s mood and any erratic behaviors by analysing verbal and non verbal conversations using complex computer vision and machining learning models. Juno categorises the adversities faced by the child and pulls in a relevant story from a large collection to narrate to the child. The child feels motivated to fight his adversities, boosting self esteem and confidence. A companion app for parents keeps them well informed about the child’s wellbeing and suggests action items based on the child’s happiness indicator. The companion app suggests early intervention in case any critical adversities faced by the child.

Juno is designed to be a patient listener and positively nudges the child to communicate more. The form factor is designed meticulously and ergonomically to make Juno attractive to kids.  The storytelling model combined with a companion app for the parents make sure that the child never feels neglected. Early intervention ensures that none of the adversities develop into trauma that can have adverse psychological and behavioural impact in later stages of life.