Workshop Agenda

9:00-10:00 introductions, proposal of themes and scheduling
10:00-10:30 coffee break
10:30-11:30 Session 1
11:30-12:30 Session 2
12:30-2:00 lunch
2:00-3:00 Session 3
3:00-3:30 coffee break
3:30-4:30 joint discussion, insights
4:30-5:00 wrap up
 

Brainstorming Notes

SESSION 1

1A PRIVACY

• How can we design mobile media metadata systems and applications that have workable PRIVACY mechanisms, interfaces, and practices?

• Access control for widely shared pictures

1B CREATIVITY

• Camera phones & creativity?

• We take pictures in the same way now as we did with analogue cameras: can the act of taking pictures change with new technology and if yes, how?

• The ways in which mobile imaging informs or makes complex  narrative, aesthetic/expressive practices (e.g. autobiographical, documentary engagement & production)

• Why camera phones? What features are so special about them? – beyond things already said

• Issue of mobility & the articulation of mobile images & other mobility (e.g. information, bodies)

1C PING PONG

• How might we turn PICS from something like email or blogging to something more like PING-PONG?

 [individual notes for 1A, 1B and 1C]

SESSION 2

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2B BARRIERS

• What are the barriers to widespread PICS? (aka: Is PICS really going to take off? What needs to happen for it to?)

•  Heterogeneity of PICS systems à different systems different use (?)

•  Do you remember the communication without a mobile phone/camera phone? Now can you live without a mobile phone/camera phone?

2C SOCIAL SCIENCE METHODS

• There have been so many different kinds of use, styles of use,… how do we begin to make sense of the space… of the bigger picture? (pun not intended)

•  What methods for socio-technical analysis and design are best suited to studying and building large scale mobile media systems and applications? 

[individual notes for 2B and 2C]

3A – DESIGN & METHODS

• How to study mobile multimedia in near future through combining technology & field studies & social science methodologies

•  Cross-cultural studies/issues –

  • How to do

  • How to use findings

  • How NOT to simplify differences

•  How can we foster cross-disciplinary collaboration in this space?

•  How can we best take advantage of social science & methodologies in executing a technological design agenda?

3B METADATA

• What’s the impact or long term effect of public sharing? (Moblogging/Flickr Models) – metadata & photos

•  Will it work? Or reveal too much? Will the metadata actually be relevant?

•  How much automatic annotation & context can we foresee for future PICS participants (non-effort-full)

•  Metadata Utilization –

  • How can we easily attach metadata to pics?

  • What kind of metadata?

  • Formats to store metadata?

•  What kind of system will get users to actually annotate photos easily? (now, 5 yrs, 10 yrs, 20 yrs + from now?)

3C GROUPS

• Novel use without P2P communication

•  Enjoying other people’s pictures

•  How does group image sharing affect our social practice and identities of communication?

•  How has the evolution of pics allowed for a more dynamic expression of identity in digital environments, especially in the domain of social communications. Instead of voice or text we can represent ourselves through a hybrid of images, sound bytes, logos, and music clips.

[individual notes for 3A, 3B and 3C]

WRAP UP

• Ethnographic research on communication (not just one technology)

• Privacy-mobile images MORE

• Mobile phones use internet space

• Next tech? Sensors

• Social Groupings/Relevant Context Convergence handheld/internet segmentation/understanding users

• Different people – who’s NOT here-heard

  • Is this fad?

  • Service providers & how policies etc. à texting etc.

  • How hard to work x disciplines

  • How to bridge? X geography

   

• Complex models of behavior, x settings & behaviors, do traditional models of our work have to change?

• Need framework for comparative studies – methods, technology, data sets

• Community for sharing – learn from one another

• We focus on early adopters – others?

• Design “problems” us make these enjoyable activities – extension of other activities, gaming

• Photography – camera phones

• Difficult to develop new modes of photography as well as from existing

• Extension of text messaging vs. photography

• Users – who? Identity – focus on communities? Social + situated

• Archival-statistical-images as informational repositories – cultural, social, ethical issues – function differently

• Different practices supported by PICS

• In 5 years we wont be in same room

• Streams

• Large scale techs/social phenomena

• Social sciences & large-scale studies

• Privacy

• Metadata

• Business – money making

• Links to papers

• Lit review/bibliography

• Coordinating?

  • Edited volume

  • Shared technical  infrastructure

• International research team across sites

• Using technology as coordinating mech –

  • Shared protocols

  • Different techs of data capture

  • Metadata needed etc.

• Is there value in diversity in studies – a bank of phenomena that have been seen