PhD course: Social Mobile Media: Concepts and Applications
Credits: 7.5 ECTS
Period: November 2008-February 2009
Introduction day: November, 13th, Multimedia Room, UB3003, Main VXU Library
Building
About this course:
Current advancements in wireless and sensors technologies combined with the rapid adoption of sophisticated mobile multimedia devices and applications have created new social software tools for people to connect and interact; therefore changing the ways we communicate and collaborate.
Mobile users are now creating and sharing increasing amounts of media content, thus generating large volumes of rich data sets. This latest fact indicates that social mobile media is about to become an integral component of distributed environments and applications of the mobile web. The aim of this course is to introduce and discuss concepts and applications related to current research efforts in the emerging field of social mobile media. Issues that will be discussed during
the course may include the following topics:
- Social Media and technology mediated experiences
- Understanding and designing social mobile media
- Changing cultures: from keeping to sharing
- Contextual Metadata
- Context aware tagging systems (example Yahoo ZoneTag, TagMaps, Zurfer)
- How to use life-logging in learning? (example Nokia Sports Tracker)
- Learning/working in Mobile Virtual Worlds (example Second Life, realxtend)
- Mirror worlds - maps based mash-up applications
The working methodology for this doctoral course will include reading of current research literature in this field (a main book and a collection of articles coming from IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE Multimedia, PerCom and UbiComp Conference Proceedings, etc) and group discussions in seminars. In addition to these activities a number of video conferences meetings will be conducted in order to promote discussions and knowledge exchange between students in Finland and Sweden. The final examination will consist of writing a research paper (individually or in groups of 2 students) in the field of social mobile media connected to the specific research orientation of each PhD candidate. The aim idea behind this approach is to help you identify relevant research topics in this direction that could be used in your final PhD dissertation.
This course is organized by The Center for Learning and Knowledge Technologies (CeLeKT) at Växjö University, Sweden and The Advanced Multimedia Center (AMC) at Tampere University of Technology, Pori, Finland.
