Mirjana Spasojevic
Yahoo! Mobile
Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA
mirjana [at] yahoo-inc.com
http://www.spasojevic.org
Mirjana Spasojevic is a Senior Design Researcher at the
Yahoo! Mobile Business Unit. Her research focus is on
design and deployments of mobile and ubiquitous
computing technologies. She has recently conducted an
ethnographic study of the US camera phone use as part of
HP Labs US/UK investigation into emerging behaviors of
camera phone users. At Yahoo! she is conducting a global
mobile study evaluating needs of mobile phone users in
several countries, including North America, Europe and
Asia.
Mizuko Ito
Annenberg Center for Communication
University of Southern California
734 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90089-7725 USA
mito [at] itofisher.com
http://www.itofisher.com/mito
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use,
focusing on children and youth's changing relationships to
media and communications and is a Research Scientist at
the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University
of Southern California. She is co-editor of, Personal,
Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life.
Nancy Van House
University of California, Berkeley
School of Information
102 South Hall #4600
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 USA
vanhouse [at] sims.berkeley.edu
http://sims.berkeley.edu/~vanhouse
Nancy Van House is Professor in the School of Information
Management and Systems at the University of California,
Berkeley. Her research relates to the use of information
and information artifacts. She is currently studying the
social uses of personal photography with an emphasis on
understanding the emerging uses of cameraphones and
digital image sharing.
Ilpo Koskinen
School of Design, Industrial Design
University of Art and Design Helsinki
Hameentie 135 C
00560 Helsinki, Finland
ikoskine [at] uiah.fi
http://www2.uiah.fi/~ikoskine
Ilpo Koskinen is a sociologist who works as a professor of
industrial design in Helsinki. One of his research interests is
the use and design of mobile technology and mobile
multimedia. His book Mobile Image (Helsinki: IT Press,
2002), written with Esko Kurvinen and Turo-Kimmo
Lehtonen, focused on taking and sending photographs with
mobile phones. He has continued to work on pervasive
image capture and sharing since then, typically focusing on
design.
Fumitoshi Kato
Keio University
Faculty of Environmental Information
5322 Endo, Fujisawa
Kanagawa 252-8520 Japan
fk [at] sfc.keio.ac.jp
Fumitoshi Kato is an associate professor at the Faculty of
Environmental Information, Keio University, Japan. His
research interests include: communication theory, sociocultural
impacts of new technologies, qualitative research
methods, and experiential learning theory and practice. He
is a faculty member of "Keitai (a mobile phone, in
Japanese) Laboratory" at Keio University, where
interdisciplinary studies and research programs on sociocultural
impacts of mobile phones are conducted. He is
especially interested in the use of camera functions on
mobile phones in the context of our day-to-day
communication. Recently, he co-edited a book, "Gaming,
simulations, and society: Research scope and perspective"
(Springer-Verlag, 2004).