

The IDEA team is a multitalented and multidisciplinary group who are exploring the future of mobile phone interfaces.
We are a group of designers, computer scientists, ethnographers, philosophers and engineers, and we work closely together throughout the development process. Within the group this runs from drawing insights from user studies, to building novel prototype software, to running medium and large-scale pilot studies, and evaluating new concepts and technologies. We collaborate extensively with colleagues elsewhere at Nokia and with experts in academia, and are highly involved in human-computer interaction communities.
TEAM MEMBERS
Mirjana Spasojevic, Director | Tico Ballagas | Agathe Battestini | Vidya Setlur | Koichi Mori | Hiroshi Horii | Jofish Kaye
INTERNS and ASSOCIATES
Maria Sandberg | Juhee Bae | James Walkup
CURRENT PROJECTS
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Interactive Visualizations: developing new techniques and user interfaces that enhance visual communication.
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StoryPlay: reading with young children over a distance (collaboration with Sesame Workshop).
StoryVisit: Now your child can read books with someone special far away.
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Understanding how families communicate and how we can build new technologies for enabling communication within families.
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Looking at new ways to enable communication between friendsand to take advantage of multimedia capabilities of new cellphone technologies.
OLDER PROJECTS
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Developing new platforms for prototyping of advanced user interfaces.
PUBLICATIONS
COLLABORATORS
- Sesame Workshop and Joan Ganz Cooney Center
- Cliff Nass, Stanford University
- Kwan-Liu Ma, UC Davis
- Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University
- Scott Klemmer, Stanford University
- Kimiko Ryokai, UC Berkeley
- Horoshi Ishii, MIT Media Lab
- Khai Truong, Univeristy of Toronto
ALUMNI
Leila Takayama | Sharon Ding | Sam Rossoff | Sadiya Hameed | Morgan Ames | Dean Eckles | Tarik Crnovrsanin | Liz Bales | Kyle Buza | Janet Go | Tricia Wang | Frank Li | Hayes Raffle | Tim Sohn | Juhee Bae