For this year’s Xtra Factor, the production team wanted to add additional interactivity to the procedings, and the idea to use a touchscreen was born.
Using our Kontact solution, we were able to develop a multi-functioning touchscreen system for the show, as well as provide the physical touchscreen itself.
With some design help from our friends at Mammoth Graphics, we put together a solution providing access to tweets related to specific
contestants (derived from crowdburst), video clip analysis tools including playback control and telestration as well as the ability to show the results of twitter polls in realtime.
The launch show saw the touchscreen christened ‘WINKI’ with presenter Matt confidently using it throughout the show.
As well as the touchscreen, we also helped develop bespoke control systems for the main X Factor show, again providing integration with our crowdburst system to display tweets and judges heads representing how much they were being talked about on twitter.