Mobiphos (April 2008 to April 2009)

Thad Starner

Students: James Clawson, Nirmal Patel
Samsung Technical POC: Namwook Kang

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The goal of the project is to investigate collocated–synchronous photo capture and sharing as a significant under–explored domain of digital photography and network visual communication.  Specifically, we will design and implement a novel photo capture and sharing application, Mobiphos. Mobiphos will target small social groups that capture images together. For example, a group of friends may use Mobiphos to capture and share images while visiting a city together. 

Accomplishments:

• Iteratively designed, built, and evaluated a mobile photo sharing application.
• Delivered a source code and documentation to Samsung.
• Acceptance and presentation of a technical paper based on the work conducted in this project at MobileHCI 2008 [Clawson et al. 2008] 
• Conditional acceptance of a journal paper based on the work conducted in this project in a special issues of the International Journal of Human Computer Studies [Patel et al., 2008]
• Collaborative extension of the original statement of work that includes:
• Deployment and evaluation of the mobiphos system in Seoul Korean. This evaluation specifically investigated the cultural differences between use of the system by Korean teenagers and American college students. 
• This investigation will result in the submission of a journal paper to the International Journal on Mobile Human Computer Interaction which is currently being written collaboratively by both Samsung and Georgia Tech researchers. 
• On going patent discussions between Samsung and Georgia Tech researchers

[Clawson et al., 2008] James Clawson, Amy Voida, Nirmal Patel, and Kent Lyons. Mobiphos: A Collocated–Synchronous Mobile Photo Sharing Application . in MobileHCI '08: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September, 2008.

[Patel et al., 2008] Nirmal Patel, James Clawson, Amy Voida, and Kent Lyons , Mobiphos: A Study of User Engagement with a Mobile Collocated-Synchronous Photo Sharing Application . Submitted to the International Journal on Human-Computer Studies, Academic Press, Inc., 2008.