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"New problems appear and demand new methods.
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes
of representation must also change." - Bertolt Brecht
"Picture This!" explores the future of photography. The mechanical and
optical constraints specific to analogue cameras have disappeared with
the advent of digital technology but still limit the way we conceive
photography.This project aims at taking digital photography to the next
level by developing new types of physical interaction with cameras, of
visual representation and of hybrid picture-viewing.
Pictures from our context photography workshops with test users.
For more information on on-going research, click on the pictures.
Picture This! is Lalya Gaye,
Maria Håkansson,
Sara Ljungblad and Mattias Rost, from
the Future
Applications Lab, Viktoria
Institute.
Panajotis
Mihalatos and Svante Hermansson
from Art&Technology
at the IT-University in Göteborg
have also
worked in the project (respectively in Context Photography and
BashoCam) as software developers and computer graphics
designers.
October 2006
Results from the Context Photography user study will be
presented at NordiCHI 2006 in Oslo, Norway.
The final version of our BashoCam prototype is ready for
evaluation! It is now running on networked camera-equipped and
networked PDAs and will be evaluated in a user study later this month.
April 2006
BashoCam, our new Picture This! project was presented as a
work-in-progress at CHI 2006 in Montréal, Canada.
September 2005
During the user study of Context Photography that took place this
summer, several users across the globe got to try out our application
on their camera phones for a period of 6 weeks. We are very happy with
the results and thank warmly all the study participants!
The latest version of the prototype was also demoed at the Ubicomp 2005 conference in
Tokyo, Japan.
June 2005
We are now looking for people who want to take part in our
context photography study! The study will start in the beginning of
June 2005 and if you would
like to
participate, don't hesitate to contact us at [picturethis@viktoria.se].
For more details about the study, see here.
November 2004
The context photography application is now working on the
Nokia 6600
phone, thanks to Mattias Rost and Panajotis Mihalatos, our excellent
programmers. The context
camera application will soon be
availible for downloading on the Picture This! website. Contact us at
[picturethis@viktoria.se]
if you would like to download and explore
taking context pictures with your camera phone. We are also looking for
people who are interested in taking part of a study during the
beginning or year 2005.
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Context pictures taken by Elizabeth Goodman with our
application running on her Nokia 6600 phone, November 2004,
San Francisco, US.
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December 2004
Context photography will be part of Elizabeth Goodman's class at
San Francisco Art Institute; SITEspecific,
involving wireless networks and urban practices. It will also be
part of a class in digital photography at California College of
Art, San Francisco.
August 2004
DIS conference, Cambridge, USA, August 1-4.
Context photography (Picture This!) will be exhibited at the DIS Design
Exhibition. Lalya, Sara, Maria and Lars Erik will be there. See you!
June 2004
Exhibition at the annual SITI
conference in Stockholm, Sweden, on June 17. Our project Mobile Life (where Picture
This! is a part) was awarded "Best IT-research project 2004" (for
Sweden).
One of the summer interns at FAL, Mattias Rost, is working this summer
on how to get the context photography application running on a Nokia 6600
camera phone.
May 2004
Context Photography accepted for the DIS 2004 Design
Exhibition. DIS takes place in Cambridge, USA, in August.
April 2004
Our short paper "Context Photography:
Modifying the Digital Camera Into a New Creative Tool" got accepted
to CHI 2004! Sara Ljungblad
presented our work on April 27. Maria Håkansson also presented
on-going work at the CHI workshop "Cross-Dressing and Border Crossing:
Exploring Experience Methods Across Disciplines".
Picture This! featured in the Swedish technology newspaper Ny Teknik on April 21. Link to article
(in Swedish).
Context photography was presented at the Viktoria seminar, April 6
15.00, at the IT-University of
Göteborg.
February 2004
Future Applications Lab visited Media Lab
Europe together with the MobileLife
project in February. We presented Context Photography and talked to
researchers from the RAW
project.
December 2003
We conducted two workshops with amateur photographers to test the
latest prototype. The exciting results were analysed and reported in a
short paper, submitted to CHI 2004.
November 2003
Panajotis Mihalatos from Art&Technology at the
IT-University in Göteborg
is contributing to the project with his excellent graphical software
design skills!
June 2003
Sara Ljungblad and Maria Håkansson presented the current work at DUX in San Francisco in June 2003.
They also gave presentations on Context Photography at Intel, Berkeley,
and PARC, Palo Alto. The presentation given at DUX can be downloaded
here. [ppt]
 
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