Hi All,

I'm very pleased to let you know that we had a very inspiring and successful co-creation session on the 8th of October. We had a really smart group of people present, all eager to contribute to the project. We started the day developing a future vision on "Creativity on the Move", which resulted in 6 interesting scenarios. After a presentation by Nokia, 4 scenarios were chosen to further develop into detailed concepts. It resulted in 4 very cool concepts for Maemo, which I will shortly explain below.

On Saturday the 10th of October we have presented these concepts at the Maemo Summit, during the Maemo Co-Creation Showcase at 12:30 in the "Transformatorhuis" at the Summit terrain. After that, everybody was invited to provide feedback and help further develop the concepts. This was very successful, many Summit attendees joined us on the stage to elaborate on the 4 concepts.

On Sunday, we had another co-creation 'Garage' session in the Entry Hall of the Maemo Summit. The 4 concepts and the feedback from the day before were put on the wall and again, people were invited to further develop the concepts. Two visualisers were present to help make all ideas tangible on the spot.
The additional ideas people came up with that day are placed below as well.

I think after these 4 days of co-creation, we have some very valuable concepts for the Maemo platform, which are a good start for further thought and action. I'm working on making a separate wiki for these concepts, so they will have their own place on this platform where Maemo members can go to further develop them and share ideas.

Below are all the concepts and ideas that came out of the co-creation session and the Summit workshops with short description.
Of course you are all invited to provide feedback and take them to a next level!


Concept 1: Contagious Content
What is it?
Everybody is using a lot of content. This software solution will enable you to spread it around you and others can 'pick it up'. When walking into a room or on the street, you can see on your device what content is being used by the people around you. Same types of content create "heat-pools" around a person. You can see what content is used the most & might be interesting for you. People using the same content form 'groups', they are linked by preference. Outside of your 'profile content' are the 'free radicals'. This type of content is not really discovered yet and lights up as small dots. Once more people are 'contaminated' by it, it is not a free radical anymore, but becomes a heat-pool.
Wow-factor: Serendipity: the perfect way to discover new content in a very cool way
"Maemo-ness": a software solutions that can grow. The concept is based on co-creation, together you create the heat-pools

RESULTS CO-CREATION SESSION:





RESULTS MAEMO SUMMIT WORKSHOPS:

On Saturday, the following feedback for Contagious Content was given:





During the Maemo Summit, the first ideas for a UI was thought of:


Level 0: there are 2 tabs: you can see what you are spreading (UI1) and what you are receiving (UI2). The content that you're receiving can be easily dragged to your 'spreading-tab'. When clicking on content, you'll see the results on the next level:
Level 1: More information of the content is shown, you can rate it, see who is sharing it, tag it, connect to other people,etc.


Concept 2: N-rich
What is it?
Content is exponentially created and tagged. How to find the right content or your own content history in an easy way and tag it in a smart way? N-rich starts at the address book: your contacts and the people you trust are right there in your phone. They bring with them an amount of content. When adding a contact to your device, N-rich collects all content related to this contact from all different content-silos (Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, etc): photo's, video's, contact info, and: tags. The tags are used to smarten your tag vocabulary, it is a learning system that learns what tags are most commonly used and how to best tag content in the future. When adding a tag in the future, it will propose the right name (predictive tagging). Next to that you will always have your auto-info: the "objective" tags: time, place, author. Secondly, you can use your contacts to easier find the right content. You can 'scale' them according to their knowledge and expertise. So if you're looking for a new car, the content and tags related to your friend that is a car-expert will be in your first 'circle' of interest.
Wow-factor: cross-silo, enriched tagging & scaling friends for high relevancy
"Maemo-ness": you can build on each others ideas and link it to Maemo contacts as well

RESULTS CO-CREATION SESSION:





RESULTS MAEMO SUMMIT WORKSHOPS:

On Saturday, the following feedback for N-Rich was given:




During the Maemo Summit, the first ideas for a part of the UI was thought of, focusing on the tagging of content with 'help' of your friends and other users.



The content (here: a photo) on your device has automated tags (location, author etc), you added your own tags (amsterdam, N900..). Below that, you can see the tags your friends have added, which you can choose also. Below that, you can see the tags of everyone (at the event) added, from which you can choose again.

Concept 3: MAE Moments - Live Editing
What is it?
Live in the power of now. In stead of having to edit all your photo's afterwards, something you hardly ever do, you can now edit the picture at the spot. You adjust your settings (lighting, contrast, special effects, etc) with easy touch-screen sliders before you take the picture/movie. You aim, shoot, and voila: a perfect picture, all real-time, ready to store, share or send into the cloud for others to find & enjoy. Of course it is possible to keep the non-edited original as well.
Wow-factor: An instant & fun media capturing & editing experience
"Maemo-ness": open source software, everybody can add apps

RESULTS CO-CREATION SESSION:




RESULTS MAEMO SUMMIT WORKSHOPS:

On Saturday, the following feedback for MAEmoments was given:




Also, several ideas for applications were thought of:


1. The blue colour is chosen to be edited on the photo. The camera recognises it and the viewfinder shows the result.
2. While you are making a video, you can add little items to the setting. For example some hearts/kisses/music note etc. They will be in the movie, when playing it later.


Two problems that have to be solved relate to the plug-ins used for an application like this. Right now Gstreamer and Quill are used for either still or moving images. An 'all-in-one' plug-in would highly improve the usability of this application. Next to that, the plug-ins used have to be secured, the user has to be sure that his/her device can 'take all the action'.

Also, a first idea for the UI was visualised:




Concept 4: Joining the Band
What is it?
You are at an event (seminar/party/holiday/wedding, concert, etc): everyone is taking photos, video's, making notes, etc. At the end of the event, you are left with your own stack and it takes ages before you see the content of other people that were also there. This concept offers the solution: at the event there is one central spot, where all content is directly send to. At the end, everybody can collect all content from this central spot. You have created it together
Wow-factor: People come together: synergy with a very low barrier.
"Maemo-ness": Open platform, fast adoption rate, community tool needs community thinking

RESULTS CO-CREATION SESSION:




RESULTS MAEMO SUMMIT WORKSHOPS:

On Saturday, the following feedback for 'Joining the Band' was given:




During the Summit, two different point of views emerged for this concept. They were both explained in case of a wedding.


In this first, the central point is a tangible box people (bride & groom) can take with them afterwards. All guests have collaboratively helped create this experience.


The other idea is that it all happens in the cloud. The subject is central (wedding) and everybody can hop on/hop off the collaboration flow. You get in, help create around the subject, synchronise, hop of, check in later what has changed, etc. The latest version is always available for you.

The first ideas for a UI for this concept was also created:

Level 0: you see what you are working on, you choose 'website'
Level 1: you see the others who are working on this and what they have done so far. You click on the document
Level 2: You see the details of the document, you can edit it, view other comments, still see the action-lines to others who are connected to the document.

Last, two ideas emerged that have to do with sharing and trust, two concepts that are closely related to all concepts.
IDEAS FOR SHARING

1: your device has a 'private' screen and a 'sharing' screen. You can easily drag items from one screen to another to ensure the right items are (not) found by others
2: 'Throw' the content you want to share towards the other device, where you can see it being received.

THE TRUST FACTOR

When sharing content and interacting, trust becomes more and more important. You trust two of your friends 100% - you put this in your pre-settings for receiving content from them. These two people, who trust you, don't know eachother. But when one of them wants to share content with the other, the fact that you trust him, becomes the start of their trustbuilding. You are the aggregator of their trust, because you trust them both. The more they successfully share, the more their trus-indicator increases.

I don't really understand concept #1. By "content", do you mean web content? So, it's a location-based way to share in online experience?

Here's my take on concept #1.

Suppose I spend the evening ten-pin bowling with a bunch of friends. Actually, some of them are even "friends of friends".

The next morning I fire up my Maemo music player, and there's a new playlist which says "by the way, most of the people you were with yesterday have been playing these three songs a lot recently, wanna hear them now?".

That would be great! It's better than music suggestions based on a social network that I must maintain online. This one dynamically adapts to whoever I'm spending my time with!

Regards,
Roger

As far as I understand these concepts live in "the cloud". So we are talking about a (maemo-) interface to tap the beast. Fine. Thats a second step for me - the wow.
How about the basics. I am missing (after using palm III, windows ce, N800 and iPodTouch ) an intelligent PIM.
I want to sync (with a Mac I own now) like it was possible with the Palm, have a syncable ListPro I had on my windows ce, have iTouch-easy media access and opennes (working bluetooth, file system owned by myself with a scripting possiblity) like it is offered by N800. And all this with an iTouch easy interface. I hope QT will be a sound basis for the last point.

Nobody should be forced (or dream) to install palm or newton emulators anymore.

Is this what the poll is about or is it OT ?

I guess i'm not seeing how this isn't either a direct invitation to piracy or a thinly-veiled sales pitch if we're talking about anything but web content. Most other "content" people consume is copyrighted.

@HuangShan: I do agree that a polished PIM should be highest priority. The problem with showing up at this stage of the PDA/smartphone/It evolution is that everyone is familiar with the real meat-and-potatoes functions of a personal portable computer, and while those apps should still be the most polished, they don't impress the way "new" does.

#3: Allowing user to edit media (could be extended to voice) before live upload not requiring a laptop/PC is good option for convergence. Sure, you could say you need Photoshop and big screen. The option to edit on laptop/PC has its own +/-, this is just an alternative to that option to edit on laptop/PC.

Allowing image manipulation before media is recorded is an option, just like during or after, but the power of 'during' I question because you also need to hold the device. Using hardware keys to control my digital camera or Nokia E71 is already difficult enough. Don't know if a touchscreen is user-friendly in this regard.

I also find that, when running a lot of software on my Nokia E71, the video recording is worse than without anything running (wobbly effect).

With a picture the situation is different from movie as image manipulation is either before or after. Its just that the picture-taking application might be able to process the data with the 'changes' (image manipulation) on the screen instead of saving them, giving user feedback of result. Much like a LCD screen on a digital camera.

One could do post-processing on video or picture like with GNOME Cheese! these plugins (effects) exist and are ready to be used.

I wonder, would this feature require a -rt kernel, much like JACK is required for audio processing, because of latency?

#4: Maybe some pictures are private or bad version. Needs moderation. Its just a matter of tagging (when uploading) or having each other contact information to share data afterwards. To do so in real-time requires standard protocols and applications (for example a cross-platform Qt application using Bluetooth, or 3G + service e.g. Ovi). It could also be possible the image is uploaded to Ovi with tags, and that users have pre-determined tags they scan for, or combination of metadata (username, realname, location, date/time, event_name, etc).

#1 and #2: reminds me of NFC (RFID) and QR, which brings me to RFIDGuardian (a mobile/embedded RFID firewall, controlled by other device such as a S60 phone (over SSL over Bluetooth IIRC)). I quite like these concepts, but with all concepts I wonder what kind of protocol would be used. If not RFID (not available on N900), then which protocol? Bluetooth? WiFi? Do you simply carry or share a QR or RFID which directs someone to your 'social network aggregator' which they then read (hence other person requiring data connection e.g. 3G)? How will you do ACL? I can already imagine people speeddating^2 based on their 'tags' whatever the protocol will be, there will also be a lot of spam and noise (compare with Twitter) so the user needs to actively use keywords to 'hit'.

Also, because all concepts interact with other humans instead of sheer data with all these concepts there is a chicken/egg problem. Either Maemo 5 is not rolled out wide enough for this to be used between communities, or its not a standard, cross-platform application ported to other platforms. I don't mean the application & protocol have to run on every smartphone or mobile device, but if it does not run on Symbian nor Windows Mobile nor Android/iPhone its not deployed. There is nothing particularly bad with this chicken/egg issue, its just something to keep in mind; don't put the goal too high, its just a fun experiment. To minimize chicken/egg, evade interaction with other devices or humans; instead focus on processing/parsing data. All these iPhone applications which parse API/XML or even HTML and show it in a nice, HIG'ed interface each provide an abstracted way to interface with [such] valuable data, making it easier than e.g. web browser. There is a lot of space for the 'GPS application' to allow I/O, e.g. to integrate metadata drawn from concepts in map context, allow part of map to be embedded, etc.

Indeed, or: I like this person A, lets see what kind of music he or she likes. Or if you got a hit on a certain band or genre, you get alarm and look into. Or 'you see' (your device, who read their metadata, actually) a person plays a music instrument, and you detect, read profile, and decide to chat because its missing link in your band.

Thing is, there is issue of privacy. You don't want people to know your whole history after they know you for 5 minutes. Some things are meant to be shared later, or never, or only with certain people. So there will be need for ACLs.

Obvious problem with #4 (which I think is a very cool idea) - given very few participants in this communal experience, you would quickly run out of storage.

Obvious problem with #1 - do you think the porn aspect of this is something that people will enjoy being exposed to?

PS. sorry for being a bit of a 'black hat' here. I really do think these ideas are very exciting and cool. Nice work ppl