Nokia Image Space is a prototype online community service. It lets you share your experiences, photos and other content about specific places as well as helping you understand their spatial relationships.

You can create content and access it seamlessly via the web or mobile device. The service is a fusion of sensors and computer vision. It creates an exciting mirror world where users can collaborate in many ways.

The research challenge

The following research questions have inspired us in our work:

• How to create a service for organizing and presenting community generated content, e.g. storytelling, without it becoming too computationally intensive?
• How to support many kinds of photography habits and behaviors?
• How to make the service into an immersive social space?
• What added value does the system bring to its users?

As illustrated in this screenshot representing a harbor in Honfleur, France, the service displays links to neighboring photos overlaid on the foreground photo. User can navigate through the location by browsing the interlinked photos.

System description

The service prototype consists of three elements:

• Servers – content and data storage. The servers also provide necessary APIs for creating the spatial presentation of the content.
• Camera client – the mobile client for S60 delivers rich sensor data when the photo is taken and uploaded to the server.
• Web browser – a flash-based browser allows the user intuitively navigate the space, comment the media and communicate with other users.

Nokia Image Space uses digital maps, location-based content and MapTP technology from NAVTEQ.

Video

Please see the video below for additional information of the service.

Contact

Severi Uusitalo

Core Team

• Severi Uusitalo - Project Lead, Concepting
• Petri Piippo - UI and Concepting
• Peter Eskolin - Technical Lead
• Juha Arrasvuori - Concepting, Community Features
• Marion Boberg - User Research
• Andres Lucero - UI and Concepting