Sharing and presenting multimedia and context information within online communities using mobile terminals

Online communities enabled by mobile communication have needs for sharing experiences and common interests in a context sensitive manner. However, due to the current division of creation, delivery and access functionality of multimedia to applications, much user effort is needed to communicate efficiently. This paper presents an approach for a user interface for mobile terminals to present and share multimedia with context information within an online community. The approach utilizes a map-based interface and domain object model-based user interface technique to present multimedia objects and the context of community members. We show with a user scenario that our user interface approach enhances the ability of online communities to share experiences and common interests in the form of multimedia with context information.