Research and Development

The Finnish mobile content communities project MC2 deals with mobile gaming, open content, community publishing, and shared user experience. See http://pong.hiit.fi

The international research project mGain studies, for example, mobile games, music, video and gambling as parts of future mobile media industry and entertainment. See http://www.mgain.org/project.html

Ad videos in mobile phones in Oulu: An experiment since spring 2004 where companies send image and video ads to mobile phones. Trial users are people moving about in the city centre and who have submitted e.g. their age and areas of interest. See http://www.rotuaari.net/fieldtrials.html?lang=fi&id=10#10 There are many mobile media research and development projects involved in the Tekes user-centred information technology programme called Fenix. To find the projects, see http://akseli.tekes.fi/Resource.phx/tivi/vaui/projektilista-2004-04-05.htx

m-cult association and its net publication mediumi, see eg. the mobile media no. http://www.m-cult.net/mediumi/

Tampere University Hypermedialaboratory, http://www.uta.fi/hyper

Pixoff is calling for new mobile moving image content in its Mobie 2004 competition. See http://www.pixoff.fi/press/pixoff_tiedote_3_2004.htmm-cult

Mobiart mobile media content production pilot http://www.oamk.fi/mobiart/

Works

Mobile media works presented at the e-culture fair, Amsterdam, October 2003, see projects under Mobile Home http://www.eculturefair.nl/site/index_en.html

People