Point of View

What we have done

Last week we finally decided on a idea. Our new idea, and future scenario, can be summarized as: In a world where the information flow is increasing at a rapid pace and personalized content is quickly becoming top priority, the need for awareness and transparency is more important than ever. Sentiment is a service for exploring stories presented in video format from different points of view. It enables the user to instantly recognize the position of any given video in a “point of view landscape”. This position can be used as a starting point to further explore video content of different points of view, providing the user with an intuitive tool for experiencing the same story from several perspectives.

Sentiment logo

This week we have continued to study and explore what technologies are needed in the future to make our idea possible. Since we last week changed the concept completely, we had to make up for it this week. Therefore we have worked extra hard on exploring the technologies that exists today and what you actually can do with e.g. NLP, sentiment analysis and text analysation. We have also started to work on our text to the book chapter. We did a lot of research in the beginning of this project on what the concept point of view is and the different definitions of it. Due to that our background on the subject and future scenario is more or less finished, which is nice now because we are a bit behind on the technology. So our main focus this week has both been to explore the technologies as well as re-writing our old text to work as an introduction in our chapter of the book. We have also decided on a company name, Sentiment. Sentiment analysis is refers to the use of natural language processing, text analysis and computational linguistics to identify and extract subjective information in source materials. Hence, it makes a perfect name for our future company. This week our company’s logotype have been created as well.

What we will do

We will continue to work on the text for the book as well as getting started on creating a prototype of our product. We will also start working on a storyline for the movie we are making for the final presentation.

Challenges we have encountered

So far so good at the moment.

Changes in the project

We are proud to say that there has been no change this week.

Resources

We feel that our project idea is great but in order to demonstrate its potential and make it credibility we need to use examples of (news) videos that are good. Hence. we decided to contact Anna at SvD, who we have been in contact with after our mid-crit session, to ask for some advise on new stories that we could use in our final presentation video to demonstrate our concept in a clear way.

Other

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