The lean-back table: smart-TV and media players for cultural heritage In the ever increasing battle for user attention most cultural heritage institutions still primarily concentrate on the browser (website, laptop, desktop) to reach audiences, far fewer rely on the mobile-first (tablet, smartphone, apps) paradigm. The second bias is towards lean-forward content consumption – typically characterized by individual users having short spans of attention – as opposed to the lean-back paradigm of the TV, with its big screens in collective social settings, inviting for longer spans of attention. I believe the heritage industry should explore the yet uncharted lean-back territories of smart-TV, media center and – for the boldest explorers – even hospitality TV in hotel environments. In this session I would like to share and discuss these ideas. To make things manifest, I will show some results of my hands-on experiments with the open Kodi media center software and RaspberryPi platforms. Session during DISH 2015, ...