The Living Room of the Future is
looking at our relationship with technology in the near future,
particularly our relationship with the Internet Things.
We can see these trends, where more and devices are collecting more and more data
and they are using that data to build new types of experiences.
It's our way of trying to explore the intersection between Internet
Things and people's personal data. If we want to use people's data
then we have to do in a trusted way we have to do in an ethical way.
What you're going to experience when you first enter into the living room of
the future is that it'll probably be in the first instance, quite familiar
there's a screen, there's a tablet, there's a fan,
but what's going on underneath is some really interesting stuff.
If you interact with one of the smart objects it has an influence on the film.
For example, one of them is the water, which has NFC
at the bottom of the, um. the bottle
and when you pick up the bottle in knows that you picked up the bottle.
The Living Room of the Future is not about saying this is exactly what your living room of
the future will be. It was about, a provocateur to go - what kind of data
could be used. While the experience is going on, there's a monitor
in front of you telling you explicitly what data has been collected and
how it's being used. Trust is the centre of the BBC it's in our
remit, it's so important.How ethical can we be with this data, how can we
provide the data to you so you can make choices, informed choices about
what you want and what don't want. I do think it really got the
public and thinking about the living room as a place to collect data.
I'm not necessarily comfortable giving away my data, but equally. I'm
aware of the benefits intelligent decisions can bring to your life.
It's identifiable data personal data
then it's what is that gonna be used for other than to service me.
I'd like to know everything was going along in a good way not a bad way
In my ideal world, maybe there'd be something where I knew that
any data that's being used about me is very manageable by me.
Data box is a box, a real box that can sit in your home, it can be a physical box but
it's in your house. It's a gateway to your data and the outside world
and the idea there is that instead of sending data to the cloud the
data says at the edge of the network and the edge of the network could be your home.
What it fundamentally tries t encouraging is people not taking, third
parties, not taking your data away but processing it locally at the edge to deliver a service for you.
One of the key findings just initially anyway, is
we need to make it a lot more explicit about what data is being
used and why. People really welcomed the transparency and awareness
of the monitor and of the data receipt for example because was when they
knew what the data was doing and why it felt a little bit more trusting
and it felt it put people at ease. What we want to do is build systems
and build interactions that are transparent and they are trusting
and they provide agency for people over that data. We're not out to
harvest as much data as possible. We
want to use the right data to provide the right experiences.