MEIC 3

MEIC 3

Please join us for the third Mobile Experience Innovation Centre Event!

A half-day forum to further the conversation in mobile innovation, we will be looking towards the future of the mobile experience. Join us for an afternoon of engaging discussion with industry leaders and researchers.

The MEIC is a public-private consortium led by the Ontario College of Art & Design, and funded through the Entertainment and Creative Clusters Partnership Fund, Ontario Media Development Corporation). For more information, please contact Michele Perras at mperras [at] ocad.ca.

• Date: Thursday July 9, 2009
  
• Time: 3pm-5pm
  
• The Auditorium, OCAD, 100 McCaul St.
  
• Admission: Free
  

Our speakers for this event include:

Keynote: 

Suzanne Stein

Suzanne will be speaking towards design value and methods in mobile, drawing on her expertise honed at UEL's SMARTLab, where she leads the Mobile Platform Games Research Group, as well as previous work with Habitat-CFC Media Lab and Nokia.

MEIC Research:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology, with Dr. Mark Green, Richard Drake and David McKnight

UOIT Mobile Education Project
The Mobile Education Project is developing course materials to be used in courses on mobile application development.  This material includes laboratory exercises, examples, assignments and project ideas.  It also includes an outline of the lectures that can be used in the course.   An example application, a mobile documentation browser, will be demonstrated as part of the presentation.

Presentations:

Vincent John Vincent, President and Co-Founder, Gesturetek and GestureTek Health

Vincent will discuss how video gesture control (gesture recognition technology) is transforming the mobile user experience.  Standard cameras embedded in mobile devices are now capable of joystick-style and “force of motion” control, face recognition support, advanced motion tracking support and finger tracking for ‘point’ screen control.  This enables users to play games, scroll lists, browse the web, turn pages, steer, navigate, and text message – all by using gestures and point motions instead button presses. Mobile phones are also enabling advances in gestural signage, integrating in situ with ad campaigns and immersive experiences.

Vincent John Vincent is the co-founder of GestureTek and has been the creative force behind the company and its technological innovations for the past 15 years. His unique insight and creativity has been instrumental in defining and developing the video gesture recognition and control industry. In addition to commercially marketing the company’s technology, Vincent is responsible for day-to-day operations and sales and marketing for the business. Vincent leads the company's activities in ongoing market identification, product development in multiple vertical markets, and worldwide installation of GestureTek systems, and has personally overseen the creation of well over 400 GestureXtreme virtual experience applications for games, corporate events, TV productions, education, and virtual therapy uses.

Leila Boujnane, CEO, Idee Inc

Leila Boujnane is Chief Executive Officer of Idée Inc, the firm she co–founded with Chief Technology Officer, Paul Bloore, in 1999. Leila has been instrumental in making Idée the leader in visual search and monitoring solutions for digital imaging. She is responsible for all aspects of the company's strategy and operations.

Adam Schwabe, IBM

Adam will take us through an Ignite presentation covering a case study in working to design a Mobile Ground Operations application for a Canadian airline. He'll discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that came up in developing a mobile application to be used in such a hazardous and interesting environment.

Adam Schwabe is an Interaction Designer and User Experience Designer working at IBM Interactive in Toronto. He specializes in mobile application interaction design, delivering solutions for clients on the iPhone, BlackBerry and many other platforms including Android. 

Daniel Debow, Rypple.com