Thank you all for your participation to our workshop at Stanford last week. I think the workshop was a success and reviewed the research area quite nicely.

Jari is now uploading the presentation materials to the Presentations web page. If you would like to have your slides or other material to appear there then please email your materials to jari.multisilta@helsinki.fi (pdf’s, links, etc).

Jari has been discussion with EIT journal about the possibility to do a special issue out of the papers presented at the workshop. The journal web pages are http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/journal/10639.

The working title of the special issue is “Mobile and Panoramic Videos in Education”. The submissions should follow the guidelines for authors at the journal page. The length of an article in EIT is 4000 – 6000 words.

Do NOT submit your article to the Springer system yet. First, we would like to get a preliminary version of your papers by the end of November 2012. After the initial review we will invite 6 to 8 papers to submit a final version to the special issue. We will inform of the decision of which papers will be invited to submit the full paper to the special issue by the end of December 2012. Those papers will then be reviewed according to the journal policy. The special issue should appear late 2013 or early 2014. A paper submitted for this special issue should somehow link to learning and education. If you have any questions please feel free to email to jari.multisilta@helsinki.fi.

The workshop will be held at the Wallenberg Hall, fourth floor (Grand Central), 450 Serra Mall. Stanford Interactive Campus Map

Visitor parking is available in Parking Structure 1 (on the corner of Campus Drive West and Serra Mall) and on Museum Way (off Palm Drive). Monday through Friday, 7am to 5pm, park in metered parking space or in designated permit parking zones with appropriate permit; after hours and weekends, permits are not required. Note: Metered parking costs 25¢ for 10 minutes ($1.50/hour) and must be paid in nickels, dimes, and quarters. There is no change machine, so be sure to bring change.

Registration is now open. We are also happy to announce that Tekes Silicon Valley organizes a get-together on wednesday evening (sep 19th). See the invitation on schedule page.

Hi!

We have published the workshop schedule! Looking forward to see amazing presentations and participate to though provoking discussions with all of you. Link to the registration form is coming soon to this page, so don’t miss it!

Call for Papers: Workshop on Social Mobile Video and Panoramic Video
* Stanford University
* Thursday, September 20th
* Organized by Stanford University (CA, USA) and University of Helsinki (Finland)

Increasingly pervasive smart phones that integrate high quality media capture devices, coupled with trends in social networking and participatory media, provide exciting new opportunities for making video narrations and video conversations as an integral component of distributed creative environments. The use of videos on Internet has grown significantly in the last few years because of YouTube, Vimeo and similar services. Growing number of education and research communities have started to use video in learning activities in new ways. According to Pea & Lindgren (2008) the use of “video are expanding from teachers simply showing videos to students to approaches where learners interact with, create, or comment on video resources as part of their knowledge-building activities”. For example, in Finland, 70% of children age 7 to 19 use YouTube daily.

It has been possible to create panoramic images using digital cameras or mobile phones and special software that stitches captured images into a panorama. Every computing platform has this kind of software available. However, panoramic video applications are known to most people only from amusement parks and science museums. The recording of panoramic video has typically required expensive recording and display technology. Recently, it has become possible to buy a low-cost add-on lens to smart phones for panoramic video recording, using the powerful computing now native to those phones. With these new capabilities, mobile panoramic video is already creating a cultural phenomena among its users.

THE AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP

• to study how people create stories, share and learn with mobile social media
• to investigate what genres of creative expression are emerging in mobile video platforms (e.g., storytelling, education, journalism, sports, tourism, concert sharing)
• to establish key research findings, emerging questions and priorities for panoramic mobile video
• to consider what new tools and capabilities will advance convivial user experiences with these media
• to critically consider copyright, fair use, and data privacy issues
• to build community around the topics of this workshop

TOPICS

• mobile video storytelling
• collaborative video creation
• mobile video for distributed learning
• panoramic video applications
• video augmented reality
• social gaming apps with mobile video
• location-aware mobile video applications
• innovative mobile video uses
• scaffolded (mobile) documentary production
• explanatory videos
• video communities of learning
• visual reporting using mobile video (e.g., journalism; human rights advocacy)
• methodologies and tools for user studies in mobile social video

EXTENDED ABSTRACTS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

Extended abstracts and demonstrations should be between 1-2 pages and contain 500-800 words. They should describe the research problem, background, research questions, and the contribution to the workshop.

SUBMISSION DEADLINES AND KEY DATES

• 15st of August: extended abstracts and demonstrations
• 20th of August: notification of acceptance
• 20th of September: the workshop at Stanford

SUBMISSIONS

Email your submission to mirkka.juntunen@helsinki.fi in word or pdf.
Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a
journal special issue after the workshop.

ORGANISERS

Professor Roy Pea, Stanford University
Professor Jari Multisilta, University of Helsinki

MORE INFORMATION

Questions concerning the workshop, email jari.multisilta@helsinki.fi

LOCATION

Wallenberg Hall, fourth floor (GRand Central), 450 Serra Mall.