Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT Retreat 18.5.2005

1. Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT Retreat 18.5.2005

2. Current Research Themes Creative communities • tools and platforms for creation • open content, open platforms, open processes • legal consequences (e.g. creative commons licenses) Social behavior related to media • sharing, discussion, publishing • meta-gaming • platforms and tools (Mobshare) Mixing professional and personal media • template-based approaches • rich semantic metadata • peer-to-peer distribution (DiMaS) Modelling communities • dynamic nature of social networks • business structures, community economies

3. Current Projects • Mobile Content Communities • games, mobility, communities • mobile media creation and sharing in groups (Mobshare) • Rich Semantic Media for Personal and Professional Use (RISE) • consumer applications for semantic web • combining personal and professional media • Wireless Festival (WF) • media production and sharing in groups related to large events

4. leader • Dr. Marko Turpeinen • senior researchers • Dr. Giulio Jacucci (shared with UERG) • Dr. Timo Saari (shared with UERG) • doctoral students • Herkko Hietanen (shared with DE) • Tommo Reti (shared with DE) • Risto Sarvas • researchers • Fernando Herrera • Matti Rantanen • Sami Vihavainen • research assistants (master’s students) • Kai Kuikkaniemi • Vili Lehdonvirta • Janne Vuorenmaa

5. Academic Partners Industry Partners

6. Methodologies • Action research • Human-centric design • Scenario building and assessment • Prototyping and testing • Releasing tools and systems for open use • Building / supporting / nurturing communities • Analysis and modelling • Groups, communities and social networks • Social contexts • Value networks

7. Mobile Picture Sharing • pictures taken and shared when mobile • sociality in capturing, sharing, and viewing pictures • user-created media content • kuvatkavereille.fi (Futurice)

8. Prediction League Engine Web-based prediction system with a mobile phone extension Predicting of real sports and user’s own sports

9. Multi-User Publishing Environment • initiated by Nokia Research Center • rapid development of (mobile) multi-user context-aware applications and services • scripted client UI language • one client for all applications (MIDP 2.0) • context information from the network, or from each user client • Nokia Open Source license 1.0 • www.mupe.net • www.mupedev.org

10. MUPELand Yard

11. My Personal Hockey Clip

12. Plans for future research themes Current research themes will continue New themes 1. Social uses of digital and print media • Immortalidad with KCL, Hewlett-Packard (?) 2. Open development communities • OSSI: OS business models, success factors, collab. with SoberIT 3. Open media creation in the workplace • Media@work (EU IST IP proposal) 4. Digitally active seniors • generativity, storytelling, social media • Emeritus: work-related communities and seniors 5. Socially intelligent media • FUGA - The fun of gaming: Measuring the human experience of media enjoyment (EU IST STREP proposal), psychological customization in multi-player games • persuasive media for promoting personal health

13. Open questions Research scope • core: digital media, sociability, enabling tools • … but many potential areas for expansion in terms of the application domain Collaboration • current • HIIT (UERG, DE, and wishing to collaborate more with CosCo) • TKK (SoberIT) • HKKK (CKIR) • m-cult • TaY (HyperMediaLab) • VTT (media technology) • USA: UC Berkeley (SIMS), MIT Media Lab • new • KCL • TAIK (media lab/ARKI, Lume/Crucible, ELO ?) • EU collaboration • research partner in China / Korea /Japan ?

14. More information/demos/code Digital Content Communities Research Group (HIIT) http://pong.hiit.fi/dcc/ marko.turpeinen@hiit.fi