Current advancements in wireless and sensors technologies combined with the rapid adoption of sophisticated mobile multimedia devices and applications have created new social software tools for people to connect and interact; therefore changing the ways we communicate and collaborate. Mobile users are now creating and sharing increasing amounts of media content, thus generating large volumes of rich data sets. This latest fact indicates that social mobile media is about to become an integral component of distributed environments and applications of the mobile web. The aim of this course is to introduce and discuss concepts and applications related to current research efforts in the emerging field of social mobile media.

This PhD course is organized by The Center for Learning and Knowledge Technologies (CeLeKT) at Växjö University, Sweden and The Advanced Multimedia Center (AMC) at Tampere University of Technology, Pori, Finland.