The demo at SIGGRAPH Asia in Yokohama attracted lots of attention from the visitors. There were lots of smiles and revisits to our both. For a mobile video displaying our set up please visit this site.

Our paper “Temporal hybridity: Mixing live video footage with instant replay in real time” has been accepted for inclusion in the CHI 2010 Papers and Notes Program at Atlanta Georgia.

The workshop “Designing for crowds” has been accepted to Pervasive 2010 in Helsinki, Finland 17th to 20th May.

Crowds often may be formed by groups of people with some level of shared sense, purpose and togetherness. In the workshop, whilst being wary of attempting to define ‘crowds’, we will seek to explore the challenges unique to crowds through examining a range of different types and forms of crowds, such as groups of sports fans, crowds gathering around performers or public displays, or crowds at festivals and musical events. We note that even with more well-researched technologies, such as large interactive screens, there remain few empirical studies of how actual user practices and interaction in such crowd settings takes place. As such the focus of our workshop will attempt to redress this lack of studies within the domain.

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Organisers: Stuart Reeves and Scott Sherwood, Dep of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Oskar Juhlin Mobile Life Centre Stockholm, Kenton O´Hara Microsoft Research Cambridge

Oskar was invited to talk about “the Interactive Road” at Usability in Vehicle Information Systems Seminar on the 28th Octobe.

Oskar presented the Mobile Life Centre at IBM’s TEC Institute agenda on Friday the 18th of September.

Arvid Engström held a talk at the Swedish Newspaper Association’s industry days on October 2nd. The talk, titled “Creating meaningful services for a mobile life” was a part of a half day seminar on innovation, content, users and business models for mobile services for the newspaper industry.

Oskar comments on the future of Internet on the mobile phone in the October issue of the Journal Internetworld. He has also appeared on Swedish public service radio first in the program “Fråga barnen“, where he got to ask the children at “barnpanelen” questions on the 25th September. Second, he commented on a new game from Microsoft on Vetenskapsnyheterna SR P1 on the 14th September, and specifically on the play experience of a global warming learning game.

Oskar was interviewed in SPRF, membership magazine for “Sveriges Pensionärers Riksförbund” (4/2009) on the benefits of new mobile live video technologies for kins and families.

The Instant Broadcast System (TBS), presented by Engström A., Brunnberg L., Juhlin, O. will be demonstrated at  SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Emerging Technologies, Yokohama Japan, December 17-19

We are looking for two talented researchers with an interest in interdisciplinary design oriented research. The research focus of the Mobile Life centre takes as a starting point people’s increasing mobility and the continuously improving technologies of mobile computing. These systems can be used to make mobile life more meaningful and interesting, yet present new challenges for understanding current practices. The focus for the mobility group within mobile life is currently the collaboratively producing and editing live video from mobile phones, as well as professional and amateur interfaces to interact with future immersive and ultra-high resolution video panorama. The two open positions are for a technical lead, and a social science lead:

Profile 1. Engineering and computer science background
You should have an experience of application development within the mobile sector or within media technology more broadly. You should have a high level of development skills for mobile systems (e.g. C++, Symbian or Objective C, iPhone) and have relevant academic skills to the masters level and be motivated to do academic research. Evidence in terms of existing publications and systems you have developed are key qualifications.

Profile 2. Social science background
Our design oriented research utilizes social science methods, and in particular ethnographic methods, to influence design of new applications. You will engage in studies of social properties of mobile leisure in general, and ethnographic studies of sport pub attendants; professional TV production, as well as video content analysis in particular. You should have evidence of your ability to organize, conduct and publish on your ethnographic research. Experience working in design orientated teams is particularly desirable. You should have PhD or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline. A focus on practice orientated ethnographic work - ethnomethodological, conversational analytic or video analysis would be a plus.

You will be employed by Interactive Institute in Stockholm. The interactive institute is an experimental IT-research institute that combines expertise in art, design and information technology to perform world leading applied research. We develop new research areas and new experience oriented products and services. You will work within the Mobile Life VinnExcellence Centre where several academic partners (also including Swedish Institute of Computer Science and Stockholm University) collaborate with industrial partners such as Nokia Research, Ericsson Research, SonyEricsson, Microsoft Research, TeliaSonera and the City of Stockholm.

Application deadline and appointment: Open

More info on the morevideo!-project

More info on the Mobile Life VinnExcellence Centre

Contact person: Oskar Juhlin oskarj@tii.se