MUM 2007 - 6th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

MUM 2007 is a leading annual international conference, which provides a fast track for presenting latest research results on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. The conference brings together experts from both academia and industry for a fruitful exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges.

The program includes keynote presentations and tutorials by leading experts, peer-reviewed accepted papers describing recent progress in mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, and visits to leading R&D sites in the field. Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award will be presented for outstanding contributions.

The conference is organized in co-operation with ACM SIGMOBILE and IEEE Finland Section. Conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library.

Previous MUM conferences:

  • MUM 2006, Stanford, USA
  • MUM 2005, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • MUM 2004, College Park, USA
  • MUM 2003, Norrköping, Sweden
  • MUM 2002, Oulu, Finland

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    Best Paper Awards

    The Best Paper Award was presented to Peter Peltonen1, Antti Salovaara1, Giulio Jacucci1, Tommi Ilmonen1, Carmelo Ardito2, Petri Saarikko1 and Vikram Batra1 (1Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland, 2Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy) for their paper titled "Extending Large-Scale Event Participation with User-Created Mobile Media on a Public Display".

    The Best Student Paper Award was presented to Dominik Schnitzer1,2, Tim Pohle1, Peter Knees1 and Gerhard Widmer1,2 (1Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, 2Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria) for their paper titled "One-Touch Access to Music on Mobile Devices".

    Recipients of the Best Paper Awards posing with the chairs. From left: Timo Ojala, Dominik Schnitzer, Peter Peltonen and Mika Ylianttila.

    Keynote speakers

    Professor Raimo Kantola, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
    Future Internet - in Search of a New Networking Paradigm
    Professor Raimo Kantola started his career in Engineering at Nokia in 1980 where he worked in various positions on Switching System development, product marketing and research. In 1995, he was a member of the TINA coreteam at Bellcore. From 1996 Kantola has been a professor >>>
    VP Petteri Alinikula, Head of Core Technology Research, Nokia
    Immersive Mobile Media
    Dr. Petteri Alinikula has been with Nokia Research Center since 1993, when he was given an assignement to establish a new RF research group. Since then Petteri has held several management positions in Nokia. In his previous role as the Head of Strategic Research, Wireless Access Petteri worked >>>

    Site visits

    Conference topics

    • Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, roaming, limited bandwidth, or intermittent connectivity
    • Case studies, field trials and evaluations of new applications and services
    • Mobile user interfaces, interaction design and techniques, user-centered studies
    • Intelligent, aware, proactive, and attentive environments, perception and modeling of the environment
    • Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
    • Mobile computer graphics, games and entertainment
    • Novel adaptive/context-aware/mobile/ubiquitous/wireless multimedia applications and systems
    • Mobile media management
    • Rich media applications on mobile devices
    • Streaming mobile multimedia

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