IS427:AY1314T1 Europe (G1) - Organizations: Ghent: Small Town Heroes
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About Small Town Heroes
Small Town Heroes is a company based in Ghent, Belgium which produces applications for interactive TV. They focus on the second screen, wherein the first screen is the television and second screen is an internet-enabled device, either your smartphone or tablet or laptops. This company creates many innovative second screen applications for TV shows in order to increase the customer participation in the real-time and thereby increasing the number of customers itself.
Current Team
- Hendrik Dacquin
- Ilja Strobbe
- Elisa Cuyt
- Andries De Reyghere
- Jeroen van Aert
- Lennart Schoors
Platform
Small Town Heroes has created a platform which facilitates the development of second screen applications. This platform is called Airshow. It is connected to a TV studio and using this platform, they can visualize real-time data while the show is on. Using this technique the audience can play along with the TV show or race against each other or compare their expenses with the rest of the people watching the show.
Using the platform, the TV studios can monitor the real-time data such as surveys, tweets, photos and also visualize this data. Any screen in the studio can be controlled using this platform. In the case of second-screens, they can annotate the shows and the shows can be triggered automatically. The second screens are immediately updated as soon as an event is triggered. To close the feedback loop of interactive television, the data collected by the second screens is sent back to the TV studios whereby they can process the data.
Customers
- Avro
- ncrv
- een
- ketnet
- Qmusic
- Mensen
References
http://www.smalltownheroes.be/
Presentation at iMinds by Hendrik Dacquin
