Creating and Sharing Artistic Experiences with Ubiquitous Technology - Dr. Jürgen Scheible, Aalto University, Finland
Jürgen Scheible is a researcher, musician and media artist. He is a doctoral student at the Aalto University School of Art and Design in Helsinki where he runs the Mobile Hub, a prototype development resource for mobile applications with a strong focus on artistic approaches and creative design. His research focuses on designing multimodal user interfaces for creating and sharing interactive artistic experiences. He has previously worked for 8 years at Nokia and in 2006 he was as a visiting scientist at MIT. He is the recipient of the Best Arts Paper Award in ACM Multimedia 2005 in Singapore, and ACM Computers in Entertainment Scholarship Award in 2006. In 2006, 2007 and 2009 Jürgen was recognized as a Forum Nokia Champion for his driving vision to be a bridge builder between art, engineering and research. Reuters and Sky have featured his latest creation, the MobiSpray Art tool. He is the author of the book 'Mobile Python - Rapid prototyping of Applications on the Mobile Platform' (Wiley, 2007). He has been giving innovation workshops on rapid mobile application prototyping in academic and professional settings e.g. at Stanford University, MIT, NTU Taiwan, Yahoo Research Berkeley and Nokia.
