Invisible Yet Necessary

Marc Davis, who I met at CHI 2005, will head Yahoo! Research Lab - Berkeley, a mobile multimedia lab colaboration between Yahoo! Research and the University of California - Berkeley.

He will continue to lead the Garage Cinema Research Lab of the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of California - Berkeley.

It will be interesting to see how Garage Cinema research in media metadata, context-aware mobile media applications, automated media capture & editing or social uses of personal media can be transfered to Yahoo!. Applications coming out of Garage Cinema include the MReplay mobile TV service and the MMS cameraphone picture service.

To know more Garage Cinema Research Lab work, check these publications:

• Marc Davis. “Garage Cinema and the Future of Media Technology.” Communications of the ACM (50th Anniversary Edition Invited Article) 40 (2 1997): 42-48.
• Ana Chang and Marc Davis. “Designing Systems That Direct Human Action.” In: Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005) in Portland, Oregon, ACM Press, 1260-1263, 2005.
• Nancy Van House, Marc Davis, Morgan Ames, Megan Finn, Vijay Viswanathan. “The Uses of Personal Networked Digital Imaging: An Empirical Study of Cameraphone Photos and Sharing.” In: Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005) in Portland, Oregon, ACM Press, 1853-1856, 2005.

You can also have a look at the official homepage for Yahoo! Research Lab - Berkeley or SIMS Garage Cinema Research Lab

The official announcement from Yahoo is on the Yahoo! Search Blog “Mobile, Media, Marc, and Me.” or on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog