Mobile Media Metadata (MMM)

We are creating software for cameraphones that addresses long standing challenges in consumer media creation, sharing, management, and reuse by leveraging the spatio-temporal context and social community of media capture and use (when, where, and by and with whom media is captured, shared, and used). We use contextual metadata gathered from cameraphones and cameraphone users to infer media content, context, and community and thereby help automate media annotation, retrieval, sharing, and reuse on mobile devices. We have conducted fairly large scale deployments and user testing of our MMM prototypes with 60 users using MMM1 on the Nokia 3650 cameraphone in 2003-2004 and 60 users using MMM2 on the Nokia 7610 cameraphone in 2004-2005. Our SIMS graduate student users in IS202 Information Organization and Retrieval have also worked in project teams to develop numerous innovative mobile media application concepts based on MMM1 and on MMM2. Other Garage Cinema Research projects:

• Social Uses of Personal Media
• Media Streams Metadata Exchange (MSMDX)
• Active Capture
• Adaptive Media