The IMF Staging Console is an example of user driven development: the requirements analysis raised the issue of the LIVE real-time staging panel which was intended to allow the production of a planned show. “Planning” in this case refers to the so called staging concept which makes fine grained planning of a show based on a time line possible. It enables for example the addition of pre-selected clips to specified time spans for the planned show. The requirements of the first trial weekend resulted in a complete redesign of the visual interface of the “Message Console”, leading to the current “Staging Console” as presented in the Figure below. Similar to many project management tools, the tool shows the events both, in the style of a Gantt charts (1) and as a list (2). It also outlines the fact whether an important (national) athlete participates in this event and/or a decision with a final result takes place in the event (instead of preliminary rounds). The concept of having filters is still valid. For both, event and incoming stream (multi) - a filter is generated and shown (3). The so called automatic filters ensure that every notification is handled by the console regardless of its content. Incoming streams are monitored by the DEA system, notifications with respect to the streams (black screen detection, no motion detection) are visualised with multi-filters. In case a new event is detected a new event-filter is created to visualise that the event is currently running. When an incoming stream can be directly related to an event (because of a HAT notification) this additional information is visualised accordingly in the Staging Console.

By default, all automatically generated filters are active at any time. However, manually generated filters can be activated or deactivated. Only active filters are checked whenever new information is propagated to the Staging Console. Two distinct panels present the result of filtering the incoming messages to the editor (4). The messages marked as “important” by the human annotators are shown in the highlight panel, while all other messages are presented below.

However the IMF enriches information from external systems or human annotators. Detailed information which is generated and propagated by the IMF to all receiving applications is presented in the detail panel (5). By selecting one single message, the related information (i.e. the context of this message) is shown. As an extended function the detail panel could also be used to trigger recommendations in the production archive.