Feb 3, 2022
Ep 50. The Hybrid Heart; When Human Emotion Meets Tech
Listen in as we talk to Heather Maio-Smith* about the intersection of human emotion with technology for future generations to come and how it can help share what really matters; stories that are the foundation of a family.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How businesses can utilize next gen tech to support the next gen in the family
- The history of StoryFile; how Heather wants to provide the ability for future generations to have conversations with Holocaust survivors
- How Heather balances running StoryFile with her husband - and many other members of her family - as a family business
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Heather Maio-Smith*
Heather is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile.
In 2010, Heather developed the first
3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler
through her creative agency Conscience Display.
At the time, she was creating physical video installations at the
United Nations, USC, and in Havana, Cuba, but she understood that
the future of storytelling lay at the intersection of digital media
and ‘natural conversation’ and decided to create
it.
Heather developed a strategic
partnership with two global entities with competencies in visual
media and technology - USC Shoah Foundation and the Institute for
Creative Technologies. The partnership she led has resulted
in the development of a new medium - natural conversation
video.
Through Heather’s leadership, immersive
interactive natural conversation video has gone from being a
concept to a reality, combining hi-fidelity multi-scopic video with
voice commands to deliver commercial grade natural conversation
with an individual, whether it’s a life-sized video or on
your mobile device, replicating the emotional experience of having
a conversation with a person. She developed and pioneered
Dimensions in Testimony,
a program to interview Holocaust
Survivors in volumetric interactive video without that survivor
actually being present. Dimensions in Testimony won both the People’s Choice Award and the Jury Prize at
Sheffield Doc Fest in 2016. She
produced and led the project before moving on to found and lead
StoryFile.
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