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Friday 23rd March 2007 - Mobile Nation DAY ONE
Saturday 24th March 2007 - Mobile Nation DAY TWO
Sunday 25th March 2007 - Mobile Nation DAY THREE

Conference Themes

Throughout the conference we will be looking at research methodologies and ways that they will be integrated into industry, education, and creative practice. Mobile Nation will engage the larger context of these debates, identified in five broad thematic fields of inquiry:

• Creating for the multi-platform context and challenges of media and place
• Participatory culture, ethnography, participatory design and the end-user
• Mobile communication and education
• Pervasive and social computing
• Engineering methodologies and solutions meet humanities and social
  science approaches

Thursday 22nd March 2007

4:00pm - 8:00pm
Mobile Nation Registration

7:00pm - 8:30pm - The Auditorium and Lambert Lounge, OCAD
Mobile Nation Meet and Greet Cocktails
Welcome by OCAD President Sara Diamond and the Mobile Nation
organizing committee.

Friday 23rd March 2007 - Mobile Nation DAY ONE

8:00am - 6:00pm
Mobile Nation Registration

9:00am - 9:10am - The Auditorium, OCAD
Welcome, Schedule and Goals for Mobile Nation

Martha Ladly, Lead Organizer of the conference leads welcomes, introduces Conference Organizing Committee and sets the goals and agenda for the Mobile Nation Conference.

9:10am - 9:45am - The Auditorium, OCAD
Framing the Conference: Sara Diamond, Martha Ladly and Michael Longford

Mobile Nation proposes to create methodologies for research in the mobile context, including design for pervasive environments; locative experience; participatory culture and social computing, in order to engage the larger context of the debates identified in five broad thematic fields of inquiry:

• Creating for the multi-platform context, and challenges of media and place
• Participatory culture, ethnography, participatory design and the end-user
• Mobile communication and education
• Pervasive meets social computing
• Engineering methodologies and solutions meet humanities and social
  science approaches

9:45am - 10:45am - The Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Creating for the multi-platform context, and challenges of media and place
Halos: new apprehension of political time and space
Keynote: Dr Nigel Thrift

Moderator: Dr Barbara Crow
Response to Keynote Addresses: Anne Galloway Discussion

10:45am - 11:00am
BREAK

11:00am - 12:00pm - The Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Participatory culture, ethnography, participatory design and the end-user Everything is all Going on at the same Time
Everything is all Going on at the same Time
Keynote: Nina Wakeford

Moderator: Paula Gardner
Response to Keynote Addresses: Sara Diamond, Discussion

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Theme: Engineering methodologies and solutions meet humanities and social science approaches
Simultaneous Interactive Technology and Sensor Workshop
Brief Roundtable Introduction to the Saturday and Sunday Workshops

Ron Wakkary with:

• MEE led by Tom Donaldson
• Arduino led by Daniel Jolliffe (rapid prototyping of networked physical computing devices)
• MIDAS 2.0 led by Tek-Jin Nam (augmented reality to prototype and test mobile interfaces)
  and Lead Designers: Jim Budd, Steve Daniels, Leslie Sharpe

1:00pm - 2:00pm
LUNCH - If you get take-out:
Mobile Play 1 - Meet Great Hall, Various locations, OCAD, Grange Park

Alter Audio - Phone Noir, Vocal Chords, Track Lines, Short Quartet for Cellphones Mobile Nation participant research will be available on display for conference guests to explore and discuss with MDCN researchers Dr David McIntosh, Dr Paula Gardner, Sara Diamond, Martha Ladly, Geoffrey Shea, Bruce Hinds, Patricio Davila, Angus Leech, Jason Lewis, Michael Longford, Dr Barbara Crow and Dr Kim Sawchuk.
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1:00pm - 1:30pm - The Auditorium, OCAD
Videoconference: Rob Shields - Mobile Phone Imaging as Gesture and Momento
Moderator: Judith Doyle

2:00pm - 2:45pm - The Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Pervasive and social computing
Drew Hemment - Roots Not Wires: or, why mobile nations are local
Videoconference: Matt Adams - Day of the Figurines: a pervasive game for SMS

Moderator: Julie Andreyev

2:45pm - 4:00pm - The Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Creating for the multi-platform context and challenges of media and place
Roundtable: Broadcast Media, Story-telling and the Mobile Context:
Forays, Formats, Fun

Moderator: Caitlin O'Donovan
Respondent: Richard Kanee
Panelists: Raja Khanna, Leena Saarinen, Vincent John Vincent

Judy Gladstone video presentation - Shorts in Motion

4:00pm-4:15pm
BREAK

4:15pm - 5:45pm - The Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Participatory Culture, Ethnography, Participatory Design and the End-user
Panel: Panel: Mobile Methodologies: Emerging new categories of practice

Moderator: Moderator: Eric Zimmerman
Respondent: Nigel Thrift
Panelists:
Barbara Crow - From Participatory Design to Participant Creation
Angus Leech - Tracklines: mobile media and the problem of knowing the world
Michael Longford - The Haunting: voices from beyond in mobile experience design,
David McIntosh - Being There: imagination, improvisation and intensity in rapid prototyping design charrettes for The Haunting
Kim Sawchuk- Locative Research for Locative Media: the 5 D's of user-integrated testing

5:45pm - 6:15pm
Theme: Engineering Methodologies and Solutions meet Humanities and Social Science Approaches
MEE Announcement

Led by Tom Donaldson, with PIs Sara Diamond and Michael Longford

FREE EVENING

Saturday 24th March 2007 - Mobile Nation DAY TWO

8:00am - 4:00pm
Mobile Nation Registration

9:00am - 9:30am - The Auditorium, OCAD
Sara Diamond: Review of previous day: Check in and debrief

9:30am - 10:30am - The Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Participatory Culture, Ethnography, Participatory Design and the End-User
Keynote: James E. Katz

Moderator: Nina Wakeford
Respondent: Parmesh Shahani

10:30am - 10:45am
BREAK

10:45am - 11:45am - The Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Engineering Methodologies and Solutions meet Humanities and Social Science Approaches
Getting it Made: Reflections Synchronizing Iterative Engineering and Design methods

Roundtable: Sara Diamond
Participants: Tom Donaldson, Angus Leech, David Gauthier, Rupinder Deol, Ron Wakkary

11:45am - 12:45am - The Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Engineering Methodologies and Solutions meet Humanities and Social Science Approaches
Context, Content, and Community: Inventing the Future of Mobile Media
Keynote: Marc Davis

Moderator: Kim Sawchuk
Respondent: Eric Zimmerman, Discussion

12:45pm - 2:30pm - The Great Hall, OCAD LUNCH and Graduate Poster Symposium
Theme: Mobile Communication and Education
This is an opportunity for graduate students to present posters or provide short talks about their research in a round-table environment.
All five themes of Mobile Nation will be addressed by participating students.

2:00pm - 6:00pm
WORKSHOPS PART ONE
Theme: Engineering Methodologies and Solutions meet Humanities and Social Science Approaches
Simultaneous Interactive Technology and Sensor Workshop
There are three simultaneous workshops that participants can choose from:

Ron Wakkary with:

• MEE led by Tom Donaldson - Room 317f, OCAD
• Arduino led by Daniel Jolliffe (rapid prototyping of networked physical computing devices) - Room 317e, OCAD
• MIDAS 2.0 led by Tek-Jin Nam (augmented reality to prototype and test mobile interfaces) - Room 317g, OCAD

2:30pm - 3:45pm - The Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Pervasive meets social computing - Immanence, affect and critical engagement

Moderator: Jan-Christoph Zoels
Respondent: David McIntosh
Panelists:
Maroussia Levesque - Immobile Nation
Suzanne Stein - Morality, New Technology and Play
David Vogt - Adventures in Mobile Culture Media

3:45pm - 4:30pm - The Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Creating for the multi-platform context and challenges of media and place
The Role of a Public Sector Producer in a Digital Age
Keynote: Tom Perlmutter

Moderator: James E. Katz
Respondent: Ana Serrano, discussion.

4:30pm - 4:45pm
BREAK

4:45 - 5:45pm - The Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Pervasive and Social Computing
Electronic Textiles, Reactive Garments & Architectural Fabrics:
Sensing, affect, memory and movement

Moderator: Sara Diamond
Participants:
Joanna Berzowska - Electronic Textiles and Reactive Garments
Filiz Klassen - From the Bazaar to Space Architecture

5:45pm - 6:45pm - The Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Participatory Culture, Ethnography, Participatory Design and the End-User
Who are we designing for and with: Addressing popular culture, public spaces and mass markets

Moderator: Geoffrey Shea
Participants:
Anne Galloway - Towards Issues-based Art and Design Research
Eric Zimmerman - Play as Research: the Iterative Design Process

6:45pm - 8:30pm
DINNER AND FREE TIME

8:30pm - Midnight and onwards
Ctrl Alt Del - Screening and discussion with Parmesh Shahani
MEE Toast
Party with Virj - Toronto Free Gallery, 660 Queen Street East, Toronto - (416) 913-0461

Sunday 25th March 2007 - Mobile Nation DAY THREE

8:00am - 12:00pm
Mobile Nation Registration

9:00am - 9:15am - Auditorium, OCAD
Review and synthesis of previous day
Sara Diamond and Martha Ladly

9:15am - 12:00am
WORKSHOPS PART TWO
Theme: Engineering Methodologies and Solutions meet Humanities and Social Science Approaches
Simultaneous Interactive Technology and Sensor Workshop
There are three simultaneous workshops that participants can choose from:

Ron Wakkary with:

• MEE led by Tom Donaldson - Room 317f, OCAD
• Arduino led by Daniel Jolliffe (rapid prototyping of networked physical computing devices) - Room 317e, OCAD
• MIDAS 2.0 led by Tek-Jin Nam (augmented reality to prototype and test mobile interfaces - Room 317g, OCAD

9:15am - 10:45am - Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Creating for the Multi-platform Context, and Challenges of Media and Place
Sensations, Games, Stories: Cross-Platform Content Structures

Moderator: Ana Serrano
Respondent: Jan Christoph-Zoels
Panelists:
Julie Andreyev - FWDrift [remix]
Judith Doyle - Warmware : mnemonic art and design research
Shawn Micallef - Storytelling Goes Mobile
Gabe Sawhney - Media for Regular Mobile Humans
Maria Stukoff - Mobile Public Art and the Urban Screen

10:45am - 11:00am
BREAK

11:00am - 12:15pm - Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Mobile Communication and Education Strategies
Strategies: Mobile 2.0 and the challenges of spatial experience

Moderator: Martha Ladly
Respondent: Michael Longford
Panelists:
Paula Gardner - Mobile Sphering: methods for making virtual spaces public
Bruce Hinds & Martha Ladly - A Walk in the Park
Geoffrey Shea - Inside Out Experience Design
Jan Christoph Zoels - Deep Places: mobile 2.0 and spatial experiences

Followed by Mobile Play 2 show and tell

12:15pm - 1:30pm
LUNCH - If you get take-out:
Mobile Play 2 - Auditorium, Various locations, OCAD, Grange Park

Park Walk, The Haunting, LinguaElastic
Mobile Nation participant research will be available on display for conference guests to explore and discuss with MDCN researchers David McIntosh, Paula Gardner, Sara Diamond, Martha Ladly, Geoffrey Shea, Bruce Hinds, Patricio Davila, Angus Leech, Jason Lewis, Michael Longford, Barbara Crow and Kim Sawchuk.

1:30pm - 2:45pm - Auditorium, OCAD
Theme: Creating for the Multi-platform Context, and Challenges of Media and Place
Panel on Mobile Games: Cross-media game development, and
gaming economies

Moderator: Drew Hemment
Respondent: Parmesh Shahani
Panelists:
Stuart Duncan - Opportunities and Challenges for Innovative Mobile Games
Nathon Gunn - Mobile Web 2.0: the identity continuum
Heather Kelley

2:45pm - 3:30pm - Auditorium, OCAD
Interactive Technology and Sensor Workshop Debrief and Show
Led by Ron Wakkary with Workshop participants

3:30pm - 3:45pm
BREAK

3:45pm - 4:15pm - Auditorium, OCAD
Mobile Nation Closing Dialogue

Moderated by Sara Diamond and Michael Longford

4:15pm - 5:15pm - Auditorium, OCAD
Research Methodologies and Creation in Mobile Experience and Engineering

Graduate symposium contribution Part Two
Led by Robert Woodbury, Douglas MacLeod, Ron Wakkary
Group roundtables facilitated by graduate students

5:15pm - 6:00pm - Auditorium, OCAD
Report back and Closing Session

Conclusions and Directions for Future Research: Addressing pervasive environments; locative experience; participatory culture and social computing and beyond.

6:00pm - 7:30pm - The Great Hall, OCAD
CLOSING RECEPTION
Mobile Nation Farewell from the Organizing Committee

Posters and Mobile Exhibition - The Great Hall, OCAD
Theme: Mobile Communication and Education