DISH Hardware Engineering

Connecting Family via TV

Increase social connections with video and photos shared on TV using DISH

Q3-4 2024

—Use presence detection to display new family photos notifications on the TV when the user is detected when living independently.

Role

UI/UX, Researcher and Designer

Tools: Semi-secured wireless joey 4, Windows (cmd), android automate, Adnroid debug bridge, bluetooth beacon, photogallery app

Goal

Build and execute three prototypes on presence detection for senior and residential use cases.

Concept: Show a personalized toast message that contains a video/picture message when the end user is within a defined range of the DISH STB and TV.

Week 1-Competitive Analysis

Week 2-User Interviews

Week 3- PoC feedback

Approach

User Interviews

Build a PoC to test with participants using their personal photos to display automatically on TV when within a certain range of their cable box using a BLE Beacon.

USER INTERVIEWS: Interview 5 users on their experience when sharing photos or videos with immediate family members and collect feedback on the PoC to understand more about user value and usability.

Research Synthesis

BLE Presence detection is not needed to show Photos on TV. Users would like to launch with DISH Remote Control, on special occasions, ie: Birthdays, etc.

Feature is similar to Caavo TV.

Stakeholders like idea, however real users did not share same view point on value.

NEXT STEPS: Consider Phone screen mirror to TV with DISH STB.

Explore app or SW approach to share media with DISH users and non DISH users.