IMKE Community Blog

Two doctoral student positions in Media Technology at Södertörn University

2010-03-13T11:00:00.000+02:00

INFO
Position 1. (Reference number 321/22/2010).
Profile towards work in the multidisciplinary study and development of metadata ontologies for participatory and collaborative web applications. Examples of such applications include Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and Wikipedia, all of which rely, at least partially, of conceptual structure (ontologies) contributed by community members. The practices of accumulating metadata from the participants include tagging ("folksonomies"), profiling and annotation and use statistics, either explicitly or implicitly. The project arises from that conventional approaches to ontologies are typically conceptualized in the opposite direction, that is, a priori in a top-down and hierarchical fashion, and are thereby not ideally suited for the emerging forms of media. As an alternative to a priori ontologies, metadata ontologies that arise from the level of participants imply new types of media technologies for applications ranging from from knowledge-construction in collaborative environments to locative media, political communication, and scientific visualization. The overall goal is the conceptualization of what can be called interactive multi-perspective media. The work will involve formal modeling and software development aiming at working prototypes.

Position 2. (Reference number 322/22/2010).
Profile towards interaction design for innovative social and user-generated mobile media. We are already seeing how mobile terminals such as the iPhone and Android make it possible to create new forms of services that help people get in touch with each other and their surroundings. However, we also believe that the applications available today have hardly started to scratch the surface of the future possibilities of social, shared and user-generated content in a mobile setting. Taking a user-oriented starting point, the student will study mobile activities in order to design and test a variety of novel applications and services. These may be either implemented on standard mobile terminals, or on specialized devices including novel tangible and embodied interfaces. The focus is not on the technical implementation but on making the user experience on mobile devices richer and more enjoyable than it is today. This work will be carried out in close collaboration with the Mobile Life Centre, a research centre at Stockholm University with partners in the telecom industry.

Blog of locative media events, projects etc

2009-04-19T02:01:00.003+03:00

A good site where to find information about locative media events, projects, environments etc:
http://locomogis.wordpress.com/

(See also the list of Categories in the right pane.)

Our future “Sixth Sense” is meta-technology

2009-03-26T11:29:00.002+02:00

e-Eesti konverents 2009 "Tark mees taskus"

2009-02-17T14:44:00.002+02:00

Today e-estonia conference "Wise man in pocket" is held in IT-college. See more at http://www.riso.ee/et/koordineerimine/yritused/konverents_2009 . There is also livecast and skype chat avalable.

Imagine Cup 2009

2009-02-01T14:13:00.002+02:00

For those who wants to improve technological world...
Check out this article I discovered today. In Estonian, in English.
Related also to our current mash-up projects in Narrative Ecology Course.
The competition is unfortunately ended, but it would be interesting to follow this event.

Happy New Year

2009-01-03T10:31:00.001+02:00

I wish you all a productive new year!

Mauri

Christmas readings!

2008-12-21T06:51:00.001+02:00

Merry Christmas Readings to you all!

You don't need to wait for Santa! He has already brought quite a few
new IMKE-related books to the main library! Here is the list of
ordered books: http://imke.tlu.ee/imke_book_orders.xls/view . Use
ESTER to figure out whether they are actually there or yet to come: http://ester.nlib.ee/search
.

Mauri

IMKE tripp follow-up

2008-11-20T22:39:00.003+02:00

Yes, pictures are too small

Online and mobile work - design workshop 24.11. - 25.11.

2008-11-13T17:04:00.003+02:00

A joint workshop on new possibilities of mobile work in collaboration with Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. Ideas for media projects and theses!

Time 24.11. - 25.11.

Place: Tallinn University P-510

Info page

Social Networking World Forum

2008-11-13T10:37:00.001+02:00

9th and 10th March 09
Olympia Conference Centre, London

Two day conference dedicated to social networking
Co-located conference on - mobile social networking
Featuring key speakers from social networking publishers, advertising agencies, industry analysts, software developers and equipment manufacturers, pay-TV and network service providers, mobile operators, plus many more
Joint exhibition combining social networking and mobile social networking formats
Co-hosted workshops from the Facebook Developers Garage
Take advantage of our pre-show online meeting planner for all delegates
Free to attend exhibition only pass available

http://www.socialnetworking-forum.com/

IMKE tripp links

2008-11-10T22:40:00.002+02:00

A quick follow-up to the tripp-workshop, the promised links I was talking about:

Is celebrity stalking (meeting them in the street and instant upload of that info with GPS coordinates to a specialized site, killing pretty much all their privacy) already going on? Yes, there is Gawker Stalker.
The role of design, who is interaction designer, blah: There is a good book online, actually a bunch of essays compiled together: Thoughts on Interaction Design. Also, check out the Design Thinking blog (better stuff is on deeper pages).
Ah, and here are my photos, some portraits from the swamp-road.

IMKE tripp photos

2008-11-10T13:08:00.001+02:00

2008-11-02, IMKE tripp

Vanaveski phophos

2008-11-02T14:08:00.005+02:00

The IMKE autumn trip to Vanaveski puhkemaja was fun and generated a great deal of ideas as well as group coherence I believe. Thanks to Geroli, Lauri, Kristjan and the whole gang! As everyone else was equipped with professional gear, it fell on my duty to take care of the phophography (=phone photography). Here are my modest phophos.

And here's a little videoclip explaining why the future IMKE logo may in some way or another reflect the rubber boot theme.

Mauri

GIS Day 19.11.2008

2008-10-25T05:54:00.002+03:00

Hea geograafiahuviline!

Olete oodatud kolmapäeval, 19. novembril 2008 kella 10-17 Eesti Rahvusraamatukokku,
teabepäevale GEOGRAAFIA PANEB PAIKA, millega tähistame neljandat korda rahvusvahelist GIS- ja geograafiapäeva.

Kavas on:

ettekanded Eesti teadus- ja õppeasutuste, riigi- ja omavalitsusasutuste ning firmade esindajatelt
tarkvaralahenduste, kaartide ja raamatute näitused ning esitlused
veebiviktoriin
arvutitunnid õpilastele
ettekannete vaheaegadel ekskursioonid raamatukogu kartograafia- ja geograafiasaali (vajalik eelregistreerimine)
laste joonistusvõistluse tööde näitus ja võitjate autasustatamine
Osalemine on tasuta.

Vaata kava.
Registreerimine 18. novembrini.

Lähem informatsioon:
Rita Enna
GIS-päeva projektijuht
tel. 630 7368
e-post: Rita.Enna@nlib.ee
www.rahvusraamatukogu.ee/gispaev

Kohtumiseni GIS-päeval!

IMKE autumn TriPP (01-02.11)

2008-10-22T17:45:00.005+03:00

Caution! Caution! Caution! Caution! Caution!

IMKE autumn TRIPP is approaching. The schedule is now final, the place is booked and weatherman promises sun and snow.

Please read carefully the instructions and take action.

Schedule of IMKE trip:

Saturday

09.00 leaving Tallinn

Please contact Lauri and let him know if you come with your car or need transport so we can organize people to cars

10.00 arriving to Vanaveski Puhkemaja and taking a trip in the swamp
Please bring cameras, hot tea, dress warmly

14.00 lunch

a common hot soup action in the cottage (some people should heat the soup)

15.00-19.00 seminar "Interface design challenges" by Kristjan Jansen, interaction designer and information architect

Lecture, workshop and discussion looking for questions what is important in human-machine interaction and how to develop a user-friendly interface illustrated with good solutions

19.00 dinner and sauna

Some people help in kitchen.
Each should take care of the sauna drinks.

Sunday

10.00 breakfast and returning to the city

Sign up:
If you are coming please transfer 250 eek by Tuesday 28.10 to Geroli.

This is a guarantee for buying common food and paying the rent of the house.
The real cost will be a bit more if I'm not successful with grants.

Questions?
geroli.peedu@eesti.ee

Commission consults on how to put Europe into the lead of the transition to Web 3.0

2008-10-22T01:17:00.002+03:00

Europe could take the lead in the next generation of the Internet. The European Commission today outlined the main steps that Europe has to take to respond to the next wave of the Information Revolution that will intensify in the coming years due to trends such as social networking, the decisive shift to on-line business services, nomadic services based on GPS and mobile TV and the growth of smart tags. The report shows that Europe is well placed to exploit these trends because of its policies to support open and pro-competitive telecom networks as well as privacy and security. A public consultation has been launched today by the Commission on the policy and private sector responses to these opportunities. The Commission report also unveils a new Broadband Performance Index (BPI) that compares national performance on key measures such as broadband speed, price, competition and coverage. Sweden and the Netherlands top this European broadband league, which complements the more traditional broadband penetration index used so far by telecoms regulators.

Read more:
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/1422&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

Potatoe Pancakes Party on Monday 8 pm

2008-10-19T14:25:00.004+03:00

Hi IMKE people,
potatoe pancakes party will be finally tomorrow (on Monday) at Karu 17 dormitory from 8 pm - room 64, 6th floor. We are looking forward to all of you very much!

Martin + Kristaps

If you have any additional questions or problems with getting inside the dormitory call +37255648551 (Kristaps)

Brainhunt contect for young entrepreneurs

2008-10-18T20:06:00.006+03:00

The is a contest being held to encourage young students to come up with new bright ideas and earn finance for making the idea come true. Prize fond is 1 million Estonian kroons:)
Official contest website is unfortunately in Estonian but can be found here.

I think some of you agreed that we have quite good innovative ideas for our Locative Technologies project. Why not apply to this contest and make the project real or at least give it a try?

IMKE POTATOE PANCAKES PARTY by Martin & Kristaps

2008-10-15T23:46:00.002+03:00

Hi IMKE people!
Me and Kristaps would like to make a potatoe pancake party for you! Which day suits for you all? We can do it next week on Monday or Thursday in the evening @ Karu 17 - Dormitory. We are looking forward to you all and let us know, which day!!!

See you soon

M & K

Debate club

2008-10-13T14:00:00.000+03:00

Train your debate skills! Mauri

Interactive movie "The Outbreak"

2008-10-06T10:30:00.000+03:00

Check it out here: http://www.survivetheoutbreak.com/

How often do you google yourself?

2008-10-03T12:30:00.000+03:00

Online PhotoCollage widget?

2008-10-02T13:24:00.001+03:00

Salut! I had suggestion to find and install to this blog online widget that could make common collage of those pictures we made.
Is it also possible to control widget through mobile...? :)
Ok, here are some links that could be interesting:
http://www.macintouch.com/collage.html
http://bloggesparadise.blogspot.com/2008/09/picasa-web-albums-photo-collages.html

regards,
Olja

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IT Standardimise teabepäev 2008

2008-10-02T11:45:00.003+03:00

IT standardimise teabepäev 16.10.2008

Neljapäeval, 16. oktoobril 2008. a. algusega kell 9.30 toimub Küberneetika Maja (Akadeemia tee 21) konverentsisaalis IT standardimise teabepäev.

Osavõtuks palume end registreerida hiljemalt 14. oktoobril http://www.cyber.ee/et/cgi/

Teabepäeval osalemine on kõigile soovijatele tasuta.

Päevakava

9.30 - 9.50	Registreerimine ja hommikukohvi
9.50 - 10.00	Avasõnad, Taavi Valdlo, EVS/TK4
10.00 - 10.40	„Teistmoodi e-õppimine 21.sajandil”, Vello Kukk, TTÜ
10.40 - 11.20	„IT teenuste halduse kogemusest Playtechis“, Marek Unt, Playtech
11.20 - 12.00	„Näiteid traadita tehnoloogia kasutamisest riigis“, Veljo Haamer WIFI.ee
12.00 - 12.30	Kohvipaus
12.30 - 13.10	"INSPIRE - Euroopa ruumiandmete infrastruktuur", Peep Krusberg, Maa-amet
13.10 - 13.50	„Regio kogemus geoinfo de-facto standarditega“ Toivo Vajakas, Regio
13.50 - 14.30	„Linkimine kui autoriõigusega kaitstud teose kasutamine"“, Tanel Õunapuu, TLÜ
14.30 – 14.50	Kohvipaus
14.50 - 15.30	"Interneti arengutrendid", Andrei Korobeinik, Rate.ee
15.30 - 16.10	"Andmekaevandamine, Web 2.0 ja visualiseerimine: trendid ja väljakutsed", Innar Liiv , TTÜ
16.10 - 16.50	„Tehnoloogiad ja soovitused targa maja ehitamiseks“, Priit Vimberg, Yoga
16.50 -17.00	Kokkuvõtted ja teabepäeva lõpetamine

Korraldajad: Majandus- ja Kommunikatsiooniministeeriumi riigi infosüsteemide osakond, Cybernetica AS

New blog: Just sharing and collaborating

2008-10-02T09:03:00.000+03:00

Davide has set up a new blog Just sharing and collaborating to be shared within the IMKE community, an he is inviting posters to that community too.

Invitation to IST'2008 symposium 27-28 October

2008-10-01T23:09:00.000+03:00

The second edition of IST'2008 symposium will take place on 27-28 October at Dorpat Conference center in Tartu. It will be again organised by UT's Institute of Computer Science, in cooperation with the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Computer Science.

This year the symposium covers two topics: Internet Technology and Enterprise Systems. We have the honour of receiving three international speakers who bring with them a wealth of knowledge and expertise in these fields. The program and the online registration form are available
here: http://sep.cs.ut.ee/index.php?n=Main.IST2008

Registration is free but the capacity of the event is limited. So please make sure you register earlier rather than later.

Web 2.0 Expo Europe 2008 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Reilly Conferences, 21 October - 23, 2008, Berlin, Germany

2008-10-01T10:33:00.001+03:00

http://webexberlin2008.crowdvine.com/calendar

IMKE Likings

2008-10-01T08:45:00.000+03:00

Likings is a simple course assignment done in the Intro course, with just a spreadsheet as the interface. This may or may not imply a community concept to be elaborated further, but I thought it may be worth tasting.

It invites you to insert/update your own profile row and it allows you to add profile dimensions (column). The idea is that everyone profiles oneself. Here 1 stands for "like", 0 for "don't like" and 0.5 for "sort of like". Join if you like.

The outcome can be played around with this explorer tool prototype. Note: I will have to update this manually, so it is not real-time.

Ideas?

IMKE at von Krahl

2008-09-29T23:09:00.000+03:00

Some nerd aspect was still present at von Krahl also ;)

Von Krahl

2008-09-29T13:54:00.000+03:00

The election ended up with even votes between von Krahl and Boheem, but the imke08 party convention decided to rule over for von Krahl.

See you all there around 19!

Being Social?

2008-09-29T13:36:00.000+03:00

Tonight we are not going to be nerds but talk totally unmediated!

Mauri Kaipainen

Rss Widget

2008-09-29T12:55:00.000+03:00

RSS Scrollergreat free widgetsWidgetbox

Remark on TLU's new web from blogosphere

2008-09-28T16:28:00.000+03:00

"Ja minu arvates ülikoolis, kes aktiivselt tegeleb Web 2.0 õpetamise, arendamise ja promomisega, võiks vähemalt mõned selle elemendid ka veebilehel kajastuda. Praegune on ilus veebileht umbes aastast 1998."

Definition of media

2008-09-27T00:41:00.000+03:00

Äripäev.ee

"ASi Eesti Meedia juhatuse esimees Mart Kadastiku hinnangul on praegu segane, mis täpsemalt on meedia ja mis mitte, selle selgumist ootab ta viie aasta jooksul."

Sloppy translation: boss of Eesti Meedia (one of the largest media groups in Estonia (part of Schibsted Group, one of the largest Scandinavian media groups...)) says that at the moment its difficult to define whats media and whats not and he thinks that it will be clear in about five years.

Very short conclusion of that article: Global economical situation is speeding up the change of media... Online will be even more important.

What do you think, where will it lead us?

Ubiquity goes to Mozilla

2008-09-26T13:35:00.000+03:00

Really cool addon everyone try it out!

http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/#comments

Brainframes, by Derrick De Kerckhove

2008-09-26T12:26:00.000+03:00

Brainframes are technical prolongation created by the human being and now no more cleavable.

De Kerckhove, a McLuhan’s follower, considers the alphabet as the first brainframe of the history. He defines analogies between the occidental left-to-right reading method and the left-right division of cerebral hemispheres. This would have kept to what Abruzzese (in Industria Culturale) defines as the occidental privilege, which consists, according to De Kerckhove, in a typical confidence in rationality and in the rationalization of any experience, including the spatial ones. This would be due to a wider development of logic-spatial, chronological, sequencial and analytical elaboration, typical of the right hemisphere, developed by the left-to-right reading. Reading skills, as a matter of fact, would affect our way of thinking.

Widing the range of this studies, De Kerckhove says that, any technology which affects the language will involve changes on physiological, emotional and mental behaviour.

One of the first consequences of this occidental privilege is the try to reorganize the reality into a rational and mental structure: the perspective. The perspective as a visual strategy brought our culture to grab the world around us, to frame it spatially in order to analyze it temporally.

Television made a relevant blow to the supremacy of the alphabetical brainframe and it tried (successfully) to swap it with a new one: the videoframe. Our body reacts before our mind does to read the message the tv is passing on. Tv deletes the distance since our eyes are something like touching what we are seeing, and the time we need to interpret the information in our conscious mind. The watcher is passively watched by the tv, there’s no elaboration by him, so the elaboration is driven by the television. Besides the control the tv can have on people with the continuous solicitation of stimulus, it addicts the watcher to the screen, so he can no more escape the watching: his natural defences low down and he’s apt to a multisensorial involvement.

The perspective taught us to divide the reality into grids in order to rebuild the reality. A grid is the base for neural networks (NN), a sort of digital brain which has the duty to build link models which bring to wanted answers. Artificial intelligence and NN are invading the media, mixing electronic technologies through a massive digitalization of the world, in the perspective of a convergence of different technologies.

The highest level of integration seems to be virtual reality. VR is a joint of body and technology which seems to bring to the creation of a new brainframe: the cybernetic brain. The cybernetic brainframe seems to have the chance to realize what cubism had experimented: the convergence of different point of view different people interacting simultaneously on the collective thought in a same visual space. This is the direction which Lévy had pointed out talking about collective intelligence.

In the technogenesis of psychotechnologies is thanks to mass, speed and depth that the elaboration of information is come out from the private universe of the human mind to the public domain of cathode ray tube. While the mass man of television was surrounded by centred networks, the speed man of the computer age is everywhere in the middle. The depth is represented by the growth of VR industry. The culture of depth brings to watch through, watch inside, watch from inside, VR.

Design can be considered, in this view, as a skin of the culture, the external side in contact with our senses which gives sense to the technology. Computers speed up and disintegrate the traditional cultural screens and they rebuild them in a different way. The resistance of a structure is functional to its design, the material, the scale and the pass. The base of occidental economies has stood frequent changes: on the material level, from the agriculture phase to the information one; in terms of scale, from a local dimension to a global one and in terms of design, from nomads to ecology. The crisis are often considered symptoms of a changing era, a break, an imminent change.

De Kerckhove points out a new man, fest, informed, polyglot and with an ethic and environmental conscience. He defines then the brain as the place where the effects of technology transpose themselves in psychology and change culture to economy.

Lonely cyborgs in Web 3.0?

2008-09-26T07:28:00.000+03:00

Assume that Web.30 will be about ubiquitous computing. How then will this contribute to peer communities and collaboration? Or are we going to forget about the social boom and turn to lonely cyborgs?

Autumn TriPP (01-02.11)

2008-09-25T16:28:00.000+03:00

Last autumn in a small group we made a IMKE phototrip to a colorful autumn.
This year we could repeat the event in a larger, longer and deeper way so that it would become a traditional event- something as "IMKE autumn seminar".

The draft schedule could be something as that:

Saturday
10.00 arriving to the nature and taking a trip with cameras
14.00 full-filling lunch
15.00-19.00 seminar on the topic of interactive media (who could we invite as a presenter? I would propose Kristjan Jansen, interaction designer and information architect)
19.00 dinner and chat to continue in sauna :)

Sunday
10.00 breakfast and returning to the city

Financing:
Transport, accommodation, food- independently
Presenter- if possible from the university

Questions:
1) who is interested?
2) 1 or 2 days?
3) presenter?
4) place?
5) budget?- Katri promised to discuss with Mauri :)
6) suitable time (1-2 november)?

Please send your comments and ideas during this week, then we can decide what and when to organize..

Olja Levistova invited you to join the group "IMKE"...

2008-09-24T11:09:00.001+03:00

Olja invited you to join the Facebook group "IMKE".

Olja says, "Facebook of IMKE".

To see more details and confirm this group invitation, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=656421723&k=X4EY2YR2Q32M5GFGRD23RW

Everyone can join Facebook. To register, go to:
http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=656421723&k=X4EY2YR2Q32M5GFGRD23RW&r

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

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IMKE's LAST FM

2008-09-24T11:00:00.001+03:00

http://www.last.fm/group/IMKE

regards,
Olja

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Shooting tragedy in Finland again: What's being mediated?

2008-09-23T18:57:00.000+03:00

The second school shooting in Finland within a year. Apparently same kind of web fame strategy as last time. This shocks me particularly in the middle of teaching the virtues of the brave new community and collaboration media. Is this where it leads? What is it actually that is being mediated? (IMKE/Mauri)

2008-09-23T09:16:00.000+03:00

There is a broad consensus about having a little social event on Monday 29.09.2008. Please mark it to your calendar. But where? Suggestions?

IMKE community blog

2008-09-23T09:06:00.000+03:00

Hey, this is intended to be the shared blog of the IMKE community.