How this works

We are testing whether a TV that asks you two questions gets you watching something faster than scrolling the guide yourself. To know that, we need both: the assistant and the normal way.

The one rule that matters

Come when you actually want to watch something. If you are just curious about the toy, that is fine and useful too — but say so in the last question. A curious colleague pressing buttons is not a user, and if we mix the two the numbers stop meaning anything.

What happens

  1. Put your name in and press start. The system picks which version you get — you do not choose, because if everybody picked the shiny one we would have nothing to compare it against.
  2. Either the TV asks you a couple of questions (answer with the remote: left, right, or down for neither), or nothing appears and you just look for something the normal way.
  3. Watch whatever you put on. We measure whether it sticks for five minutes. Putting something on and abandoning it is not a win, so please behave exactly as you would at home.
  4. Your phone shows four questions. Thirty seconds.

It takes

Up to 15 minutes, most of which is just watching TV. You can stop any time with the button on your phone.

If something breaks

It is not you. Press "something broke" on your phone and tell Rodrigo. A failed session is thrown away rather than counted, so nothing you do can spoil the data.