PICS 2006
Workshop on Pervasive Image Capture and Sharing · Ubicomp 2006
· Mirjana Spasojevic · Mizuko Ito · Nancy Van House · Ilpo Koskinen · Fumitoshi Kato ·
EXTENDED DEADLINE:
Submissions due 6/30/2006

Acceptances sent 7/24/2006

Date of workshop 9/18/2006

ZoneTag: Designing Context-Aware Mobile Media Capture to Increase Participation
    Shane Ahern, Marc Davis, Dean Eckles, Simon King, Mor Naaman, Rahul Nair, Mirjana Spasojevic, Jeannie Hui-I Yang
    Yahoo! Research Berkeley
    1950 University Ave, Suite 200
    Berkeley, CA 94707, USA
    http://research.yahoo.com/location/yahoo_research_berkeley
    {sahern, marcd, eckles, simonk, mor, rnair, mirjana, jeanniey} at yahoo-inc.com

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    ZoneTag is a rich mobile client that enables context-aware upload of photographs from cameraphones. In addition to automatically supplying location metadata for each photograph, ZoneTag supports media annotation via context-based tag suggestions. Sources for tag suggestions include past tags from the user, the user's social network, and the public, as well as names of real world entities such as restaurants, events, and venues near the user's location. A seamless interface makes it easy to assign tags to a photo, forming the basis for a richer personal media retrieval and organization system. We believe that lowering the barriers to tagging has great potential for effective retrieval.

The Experience Re-player: Trail-based Reconstruction of Captured Experiences in Ubiquitous Computing Spaces
    Richard Baker, George Roussos and Mark Levene
    Birkbeck College, University of London
    Malet Street
    London WC2E 7HX, UK
    ++44 20 7631 6324
    {richard, gr, mark} at dcs.bbk.c.uk

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    In this paper, we describe the Experience Re-player, a system that uses smart-phones to record experiences of a visit. Such experiences are augmented with additional multi-media content and reconstructed digitally in the form of an interactive website. Experiences can be replayed, searched, stopped and restarted, annotated and edited to act as an aide-de-memoir and to extend the relationship between places and people. We show how trails used as data primitives are a critical element in the successful construction of the Experience Re-player. Finally, we present two cases studies in which we used the Experience Re-player within a museum exhibition setting.

Flexible Views: Annotating and finding context-tagged mobile content
    Frank Bentley and Crysta Metcalf
    Applications Research Center
    Motorola Labs
    1295 E. Algonquin Rd
    Schaumburg, IL 60196 USA
    {f.bentley, crysta.metcalf} at motorola.com

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    We present the results of three studies on the use of contextual metadata tags to find personal photographs. Specifically we address the use of time, event, and location tags to allow users to find media from their collections. We found that users need to be provided with flexible ways to browse their content and that they remember quite different attributes of each piece of content. Finally, we discuss the need for flexible photo search to support photo sharing and photo talk, two key uses of photographs.

Speaking in Pictures: Visual Conversation Using Radar
    Maia Garau, John Poisson, Scott Lederer, Chris Beckmann
    Tiny Pictures Inc.
    417 14th Street, San Francisco CA 94103
    {maia|john|scott|chris} at tinypictures.us

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    Radar is a new picture-sharing service designed for cameraphones. In this paper we present key observations from ongoing qualitative research on the social practices we see emerging among our early users. We discuss how Radar's unique sharing model and overall design combine to shape a new form of visual conversation anchored in pictures. In particular, we address how Radar integrates into users' daily lives, and how the classes of pictures they choose to share give rise to new social interactions with existing friends.

Capture, Share, and Experience: "Podwalk" as a Medium for Flaneurs
    Fumitoshi Kato
    Keio University
    5322 Endo, Fujisawa
    Kanagawa 252-8520, Japan
    +81 466-49-3619
    fk at sfc.keio.ac.jp

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    This paper explores the possible use of podcasts to deliver and share images together with audio recordings. Referring to a field research conducted in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, this paper reports on our recent attempts to create "podwalk" programs that enable us to walk through the city in alternative ways. In the context of community development and urban design, a podwalk program can be understood as a medium for flaneurs, with which one can amble along the streets to encounter a series of surprises and discoveries. I suggest that becoming a flaneur may be an entry point to experience our practice of image capture and sharing.

Thinking about Sound in Mobile Multimedia
    Ilpo Koskinen
    School of Design, Industrial Design
    University of Art and Design Helsinki
    Hämeentie 135 C
    00560 Helsinki, Finland
    ikoskine at uiah.fi

    Katja Battarbee
    IDEO
    100 Forest Ave
    Palo Alto, CA 94301
    USA

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    In a series of studies, David Frohlich has shown that sound can do many things in relation to pictures. For instance, if one shoots a blurry image, sound can "save" them by making them still interesting enough to be shared later in photo-talk. There are few existing studies on sound in mobile multimedia, but they suggest that in the future, we must pay attention not just to the fact that camera phones have made cameras ubiquitous, but they also have made microphones ubiquitous. This paper discusses the implications of this fact to mobile multimedia.

The Social Uses of Purikura: Photographing, Modding, Archiving, and Sharing
    Daisuke Okabe
    Keio University
    Graduate School of Media and Governance
    5322 Endo Fujisawa
    Kanagawa 252-8520 JAPAN
    dokabe at sfc.keio.ac.jp

    Mizuko Ito
    Annenberg Center for Communication
    University of Southern California
    734 West Adams Boulevard
    Los Angeles, CA 90232
    mito at annenberg.edu

    Jan Chipchase
    Nokia Japan Ltd.
    17th Floor, Arco Tower
    Shimemoguro 1-8-1 Meguro-ku
    Tokyo 153-0064
    Jan.chipchase at nokia.com

    Aico Shimizu
    Keio University
    Graduate School of Media and Governance
    5322 Endo Fujisawa
    Kanagawa 252-8520 JAPAN
    aico at sfc.keio.ac.jp

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    Drawing from ethnographic research in Tokyo, this paper describes the social practices of photographing, modding, archiving and sharing Print Club sticker pictures. The case of purikura is presented in order to illustrate a pervasive image capture and sharing modality that is optimized to capture and display peer network relationships.

Context-aware Navigation through a Shared Photo Collection
    Julien Pauty
    Yolande Berbers
    K. U. Leuven
    Celestijnenlaan 200A
    3001 Leuven, Belgium
    {julien.pauty,yolande.berbers} at cs.kuleuven.be

    Paul Couderc
    INRIA
    Campus de Beaulieu
    35042 Rennes, France
    paul.couderc at irisa.fr

    Michel Banâtre
    INRIA
    Campus de Beaulieu
    35042 Rennes, France
    michel.banatre at irisa.fr

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    In this article we present an application to navigate through a photo collection, using context. In this application, the user context is represented by the photos that are close to him according to one or several dimensions. For example, the user's context can be represented by the photos that were taken near him during a precise period like the Second World War. Such a context permits the user to move in the photo collection just by walking and to get photos of the surroundings that were taken during another time period. This application offers other services, such as temporal navigation to get different views of the current place, route planning or virtually entering into closed buildings.

A Holistic View on Future Snapshot Media
    Risto Sarvas, Sami Vihavainen
    Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
    P.O. Box 9800
    02015 TKK, Finland
    {risto.sarvas, sami.vihavainen} at hiit.fi

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    In this paper, we describe our previous and current work on people's everyday photography, or more broadly: snapshot media. The digital revolution, wide availability of internet connections, and mobile phones as media creation devices are changing the way people create and use media. We identify three phenomena that will shape the future of snapshot media: the heterogeneity of current technical environment (especially in mobile media), the future role of paper, and the association of information with snapshot media in the form of metadata, context information, and user tagging. To design and do research in this heterogeneous environment we propose a more holistic view in studying people's media creation and use.

Contextualising Mobile Presence with Digital Images
    Christine Satchell
    Interaction Design Lab
    The University of Melbourne
    and
    Smart Internet Technology CRC
    satc at unimelb.edu.au

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    A series of Swarm mobile phone prototypes have been developed in response to the user needs identified in a three-year empirical study of young people's use of mobile phones. The prototypes take cues from user led innovation and provide multiple avatars that allow individuals to define and manage their own virtual identity. This paper briefly maps the evolution of the prototypes and then describes how the pre-defined, color coded avatars in the latest version of the Swarm are being given greater context and personalization through the use of digital images.

Distant Closeness: Cameraphones and Public Image Sharing

Nancy Van House
School of Information
University of California at Berkeley
102 South Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
vanhouse at sims.berkeley.edu

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Cameraphones and cameraphone images represent not only a new technology, but a new kind of image. Following up on our study of cameraphone use and image-sharing via the MMM2 system, we are studying new media via the intersection of cameraphones and Flickr – the dailyness and opportunism of cameraphone images combined with easy online sharing with friends and strangers. Here we talk about this in terms of multimodal communication, and in terms of issues of identity and agency. We conclude that new media of all kinds are increasing the use of multimodal communication, and the communicator’s ability to choose the most appropriate communication mode(s); but they also have important repercussions for issues of self and other.

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