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Student project: Telenor Kino

January 12, 2010 on 8:40 am | By Jørn | In Design, Student projects | No Comments

In the autumn of 2009, students at AHO conducted a 6 week task exploring new social experiences for web-based movie renting. See more student projects for RECORD here.

Telenor Kino by Christer Carlsson
Telenor Kino is a standalone desktop or web-based application, imagined as a supplement or extension of the current Online.no streaming movie rental. By using a rich media platform (such as Silverlight or Flash), Kino can provide a presentation and user experience beyond what’s possible under the usual restrictions of the typical internet browser.

The project has two central themes, the first being ways to create a more coherent movie rental experience, from order placement through closing credits. With the influx of HD flatscreen TVs, more and more users opt to connect their computers to the bigger screen. Kino has two switchable operation modes, one for pc and another for when connected to a TV.

The second theme is content filtering, through both «manual» searching and browsing as well as intelligent, automatic recommendations based on the user’s own movie preferences and those of users with similar tastes. Each user also has his own public «cinema», which acts as a temporary playlist for movies and a place to save movie titles for later viewing.