Please visit us at:
http://wi-not.ca/

In this issue:

A Letter from our Editors-in-Chief
Barbara Crow, York University & Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University

Rules For Collaborative Research
Yasmin Jiwani, Concordia University

What Can I Say?
Alison Powell, Concordia University

Daviid Gauthier: A Portrait of the Engineer as Architect of Information
Andrea Zeffiro and Daviid Gauthier, Concordia University

Cell Skins by Marit-Saskia Wahrendorf
Kim Sawchuk & Barbara Crow

Territory as Interface: Design for Mobile Experiences
Michael Longford, Concordia University

I Turn My (Digital) Camera On: Thoughts on Nuit Blanche, Toronto
Janice Leung, York University

Editor's Choice
Top Links (Winter/Spring 2007)

About Wi:
Wi, the journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN), publishes the
latest in Canadian mobilities research, encompassing disciplines such as
design, engineering, computer science, communications and media studies.

Currently focusing on the research work of MDCN projects, Wi aims to expand
its purview in the coming months to include other national and international
scholarship, artistic productions and design research on mobility, wireless
technologies, and digital media.

Comments/Suggestions:
Contact us at editors@wi-not.ca

Best regards,
Wi-editors

Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms
March 22 - 25, 2007, The Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Canada
http://www.mobilenation.ca/

Call for Conference Posters & Participation
The Ontario College of Art & Design, the Mobile Digital Commons Network, and the Canadian Design Research Network is hosting Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms, an international conference of experts in research, design and engineering for mobile experiences. The conference will focus on the methods that different sectors and disciplines bring to the challenge of designing for mobile platforms.

Mobile Nation will provide an important forum to engage designers, engineers, research and industry in the exciting potential offered by mobile platforms, such as cellular telephones, MP3 devices, Personal Digital Assistants, and mobile game systems.

A special poster session will be held during the conference to demonstrate undergraduate and graduate excellence in the area of mobile experience design and research. A devoted session will offer students the opportunity to personally present their work to distinguished conference participants, leading researchers, and industry experts.

Students are invited to submit posters addressing one of the following broad thematic areas of inquiry:

1) The multi-platform context and challenges of media and place;

2) Participatory culture, ethnography, participatory design and the end-user;

3) Mobile communication and education;

4) Pervasive and social computing; and

5) Engineering and social science methodologies in mobile contexts


Submission Deadline: March 12, 2007

Submission Format: portable document format (pdf)

For initial consideration, documents should be submitted at low resolution, A4 size (210mm x 297mm or 8.3" x 11.7") at no larger than 3 MB file size.

Final size: A1 (594mm x 841mm or 23.4" x 33.1")

Winning posters will be printed by Mobile Nation for exhibition at the Conference.

Submission is free. To submit go to: http://www.mobilenation.ca/posters

Come to Mobile Nation! Mobile Nation Conference registration fee waived for OCAD and CDRN affiliated students/faculty/staff: ATTENDANCE AT MOBILE NATION IS FREE!

For further information and to register for the Mobile Nation conference visit http://www.mobilenation.ca/ or contact info@mobilenation.ca



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MOBILE NATION: CREATING METHODOLOGIES FOR MOBILE PLATFORMS

The Ontario College of Art and Design, as a member institution of the Mobile Digital Commons Network, and in concert with the Canadian Design Research Network, will be hosting "Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms", an international conference of experts on research, design and engineering for mobile experiences, from March 22 - 25, 2007 at the OCAD campus in Toronto, Canada. This conference will focus on the methodologies that different sectors and disciplines bring to the challenge of designing for mobile platforms.

Mobile Nation will provide an important means to engage designers, engineers and end-users across diverse sectors, such as cultural industries, architecture, educational content delivery, way-finding, and advertising in the exciting potential offered by mobile platforms, such as cellular telephones, MP3 devices, Personal Digital Assistants, and mobile game systems. Mobile Nation will also explore and share the many challenges faced by designers and engineers supporting design for these platforms, within an array of technological contexts. These include WiFi; sensor systems such as Radio Frequency ID, Global Positioning Satellite and Bluetooth; various networks such as Personal Area Networks); as well as responsive wearable and ambient contexts, such as intelligent garments and billboards. Multiplatform content design will be a key element of the conference.


Here is the programme for the conference, and here is how to get in touch with the organizers for more information.

The conference will also feature a poster contest available to undergrad and graduate students. Submission is free and should be based on one of the indicacted themes.

Conference fees are free for OCAD students, $25 for all other students, and $200 for delegates.

See you there!

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, 6-8 MAY 2007

INTRODUCTION

Combining music and mobile technology promises exciting future developments in a rapidly emerging field. Devices such as mobile phones, Walkmans and iPods have already brought music to the ever-changing social and geographic locations of their users and reshaped their experience of the urban landscape. With new properties such as ad hoc networking, Internet connection, and context-awareness, mobile music technology offers countless new artistic, commercial and socio-cultural opportunities for music creation, listening and sharing. How can we push forward the already successful combination of music and mobile technology? What new forms of interaction with music lie ahead, as locative media and music use merge into new forms of everyday experiences?

This series of annual workshops began to explore and establish the emerging field of mobile music technology in 2004. This fourth edition of the Mobile Music Workshop in 2007 offers a unique opportunity to participate in the development of mobile music and hands-on experience of cutting-edge technology.

This year’s workshop is hosted by STEIM and Waag Society in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and partners with the Futuresonic Festival in Manchester, England, taking place later the same week. The programme of the workshop will consist of keynote presentations from invited speakers, peer-reviewed paper presentations, poster sessions, in-depth discussions about the crucial issues of mobile music technology, demos of state-of-the-art projects, break-out sessions and live events. Registered participants will take part in hands-on sessions conducted by leaders in the field. In addition to traditional presentation sessions, the programme includes events open to a general audience, facilitating the presentation of artworks and technological breakthroughs to a wider public.

The Mobile Music Workshop sets the stage for a collaboration that brings together leading institutions in both experimental electronic music and mobile media. STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is a centre for electronic music production well known in the performing arts. STEIM promotes the idea that Touch is crucial in communicating with electronic and digital arts technologies, a vision that over the years has given birth to physical, sensor-based musical instruments. Waag Society is a research and development institute in the fields of networked art, education and creative industries. Waag develops platforms for artists to reach society through networked collaboration, media streaming, and locative media.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS AND WORKS

We invite practitioners, artists, designers, hackers and researchers from all areas, including music, technology development, new media, sound-art, music distribution, cultural/media studies, locative media and industry to submit work and register to attend.

Don't miss this chance to help shape the mobile music landscape of the future!

Participants are encouraged to submit their work in mobile music technology to the categories below. The partnership with the Futuresonic Festival (http://www.futuresonic.com/) allows those coming to Europe to make a single trip to attend both events.

Papers
We invite submissions of workshop papers presenting new projects, approaches or reflections exploring the topic of mobile music. Potential submissions could include but are not limited to mobile music systems or enabling technologies, interface design, legal issues, user studies, ethnographic fieldwork, social implications, art pieces and other areas relevant to mobile music.
Accepted paper authors will be given a time slot during the workshop for presentation and discussion of their work.

Format: up to 8 pages in ACM SIG publications format (shorter papers welcome). For templates, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Posters
We also invite the contribution of posters that document work-in-progress projects or ideas in similar areas of mobile music technology as the papers.
Posters will be on display during the duration of the conference. We will arrange a poster presentation session where attendees will be able to discuss the works with the authors.

Format: 2 pages in ACM SIG publications format.

Demonstrations
We also invite submissions of work to the demo category. Besides encouraging paper and poster presenters to bring a demonstration as a complement their presentation, we encourage submissions of stand-alone demos of mobile music systems or enabling technology. Their implementation should be ready enough to be demoed, and will possibly be shown to the general public during open sessions depending on their robustness.

Format: 2 pages in ACM SIG publications format.


SUBMISSION

Please email your submission as a PDF file in the appropriate format to submissions@mobilemusicworkshop.org. In the subject line, state MMW SUBMISSION followed by PAPER, POSTER or DEMO and the name of the main author. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by a committee of international specialists in the fields of mobile music, interactive music, and locative media.


DEADLINES
Submission deadline: 12th March 2007
Notification of acceptance: 2nd April 2007
Registration deadline: 16th April 2007
Final submission deadline: 16th April 2007


REGISTRATION & FEE

This year’s workshop will have both closed sessions for registered participants and sessions open to the general public. The number of participants for the closed sessions of the workshop is limited to 50 places. Accepted submitters are given priority, other participants are accepted on a first-come first-served basis. Registered participants will have automatic access to all sessions of the workshops.
The closed sessions of the workshop will be charged both a regular and a reduced student fee, similar to the last edition’s fees.

Registration deadline:16th April 2007

The open sessions will be advertised in more detail closer to the event. The fee for the open sessions will be event-based.

Scheduling and registration fees will be coordinated with Futuresonic to allow participants to easily attend both events.


ORGANISERS

International Steering Committee
Atau Tanaka (Sony CSL Paris, France)
Frauke Behrendt (University of Sussex, UK)
Lalya Gaye (Viktoria Institute, Sweden)

Local Organising Committee
Kristina Andersen (STEIM, The Netherlands)
Robert van Heumen (STEIM, The Netherlands)
Ronald Lenz (Waag Society, The Netherlands)


MORE INFORMATION

For more information about the previous and up-coming workshops, the ACM SIG publications format as well as travel and accommodation information, please consult:

http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org/

Pocket Films Festival is an event organized by the Forum des images, a major cultural institution in Paris dedicated to the exploration of
relations between cinema, technologies and society.

In 2005, The Forum des images launched the first edition of the Pocket
Films Festivals. Our mission is to explore and stimulate the creative
possibilities offered by the new generation of cellular telephones.
Since the first edition, the Pocket Films Festival organized filmmaking
workshops, conferences and debates, and invited French video and graphic
artists, writers, filmmakers, art and film schools students, to make
films made with cellular telephones.

More than 1,000 films were created for the festival, some of them
reaching international acclaim like " Nocturnes for the King of Rome "
by Jean-Charles Fitoussi, selected at the International Critic's Week at
the Cannes Film Festival.

• The 3rd edition of the Pocket Films Festival, festival of films made

with cellular telephones organized by the Forum des images, will take
place in the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, on June 8-9-10, 2007. *

For this new edition we propose to filmmakers, photographers, video and
graphic artists all over the world to direct films made with cellular
phones. We are now in the process of seeking interested persons
regarding this invitation.

Work continues on The Haunting mobile experience for Parc Mont Royal. In preparation for a public presentation in March, the Montreal team will be running a series of in-situ tests over the next few months. The first few tests will be on January 18th and January 31st.

The Ontario College of Art and Design, as a member institution of the Mobile Digital Commons Network, and in concert with the Canadian Design Research Network, will be hosting "Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms", an international conference of experts on research, design and engineering for mobile experiences, from March 22 - 25, 2007 in Toronto, Canada. This conference will focus on the methodologies that different sectors and disciplines bring to the challenge of designing for mobile platforms. We would like to invite you to participate as a distinguished speaker at the conference.

Mobile Nation will provide an important means to engage designers, engineers and end-users across diverse sectors, such as cultural industries, architecture, educational content delivery, way-finding, and advertising in the exciting potential offered by mobile platforms, such as cellular telephones, MP3 devices, Personal Digital Assistants, and mobile game systems. Mobile Nation will also explore and share the many challenges faced by designers and engineers supporting design for these platforms, within an array of technological contexts. These include WiFi; sensor systems such as Radio Frequency ID, Global Positioning Satellite and Bluetooth; various networks such as Personal Area Networks); as well as responsive wearable and ambient contexts, such as intelligent garments and billboards. Multiplatform content design will be a key element of the conference.

An exhibition of works by Jason E. Lewis

Oboro Gallerie
13 January - 17 February 2007

Vernissage 13 January @ 5 p.m.

Field work continues on Mount Royal in preparation for The Haunting prototype.

On Sunday, October 22, 2006, MDCN's Interactive Parks and Evaluation, Mobility and Usability (EMU) teams will be partaking in a games workshop. The purpose is to explore traditional game structures in relation to The Haunting, Interactive Park's location based mobile game in Mount Royal.