The Mobile Content Communities (MC2) project studies the social meaning and impact of new communication technology for communities that are interested in mobile gaming. The results expected of the MC2 project include evaluated and tested scenarios of mobile community gaming, template-based design tools that allow people to create their own games and game-related content, new open source tools to empower the community activity, and company-specific case studies to help the industry partners to benefit from community-created content.
Based on the interests of project participants and sponsors four concepts have been implemented related to mobile gaming content development. Mupedev.org is a community of developers for the open source Multi-User Publishing Environment (MUPE) platform, in collaboration with Nokia Research Center. MAR toolkit, is an extension to the MUPE platform for creation of mobile augmented reality multi-user applications and games. Prediction League Engine is a community betting system, where users set up their own prediction leagues and bet on the web and using a mobile phone. Fansite Starter Kit has provided design guidelines for a web-based toolkit for publishing Habbo Hotel related fansite content, in collaboration with Sulake.
We also study how the integration of a camera into a mobile phone affects people and their photographing. The work related to camera phones has focused on what kind of pictures people take and with whom they share them. We have constructed a mobile picture-sharing application MobShare, which was commercialized by our company partner Futurice. Another commercially available system called Comeks was implemented in collaboration with a new start-up Bulbon for user-created comic strips on smart phones.
People
- Marko Turpeinen, project leader
- Fernando Herrera
- Kai Kuikkaniemi
- Matti Rantanen
- Timo Saari
- Antti Salovaara
- Risto Sarvas
- Janne Vuorenmaa
- Herkko Hietanen
- Vili Lehdonvirta
- Atte Järvinen
- Jarno Koponen
Research groups
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Digital Content Communities Dr. Marko Turpeinen, Dr. Timo Saari, Dr. Giulio Jacucci
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Ubiquitous Interaction Dr. Timo Saari, Dr. Giulio Jacucci, Prof. Martti Mäntylä
See pong.hiit.fi for further information and publications.
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