Mobile and Metadata Systems for Self-Made Media

When?

Wednesday 18 February 2009, 14:00 to 15:00

Where?

39BB02

Open to:

Staff, Students

Abstract:

Ordinary people creating digital media content (self-made media) is gradually becoming as mainstream as traditional photography. There are roughly 650 million digital cameras (incl. camera phones) in the EU and US combined (80% of the combined population). In addition, the growing familiarity with the internet has created new ways of sharing and publishing of the created media. However, the shaping of the 21st century media sharing culture is still under construction. In this talk I will start by discussing my previous work with mobile media metadata and user studies of sharing mobile photos. Then I will briefly talk about work in progress I find central to self-made media: leveraging personal media metadata, and the study of domestic photography as an ecosystem of people, devices, services, software and physical space. I conclude the talk by drawing attention to whether the key innovations in the future of self-made media are individual technologies or designs that integrate or aggregate existing ones.

Notes :

Dr.Sarvas received his doctorate in software engineering from Helsinki University of Technology TKK in 2006. His thesis was on human-centric design of metadata for snapshot photography, and it was awarded by the Finnish Information Processing Association as the best in 2006, and it was also a finalist for the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award 2007. Currently he is a post-doc researcher at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, where he is leading the Self-Made Media Research Group, which studies personal media communication and production. He was a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley in 2002-03. This year he is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Surrey, UK. He has over twenty academic publications and about a dozen non-academic writings.