Artur Lugmayr

Artur Lugmayr describes himself as a creative thinker and his scientific work is situated between art and science. His vision can be expressed as to create media experiences on future emerging media technology platforms. He is the head and founder of the New AMbient MUltimedia (NAMU) research group at the Tampere University of Technology (Finland) which is part of the Finnish Academy Centre of Excellence of Signal Processing from 2006 to 2011 (http://namu.cs.tut.fi). He is holding a Dr.-Techn. degree from the Tampere University of Technology (TUT, Finland), and is currently engaged in Dr.-Arts studies at the School of Motion Pictures, TV and Production Design (UIAH, Helsinki). He chaired the ISO/IEC ad-hoc group "MPEG-21 in broadcasting"; won the NOKIA Award of 2003 with the text book "Digital interactive TV and Metadata" published by Springer-Verlag in 2004; representative of the Swan Lake Moving Image & Music Award board member of MindTrek, EU project proposal reviewer; invited key-note speaker for conferences; organizer and reviewer of several conferences; and has contributed one book chapter and written over 25 scientific publications. His passion in private life is to be a notorious digital film-maker. He is founder of the production company LugYmedia Inc.

Publications

Media in the Ubiquitous Era: Ambient, Social and Gaming Media
Media in the Ubiquitous Era: Ambient, Social and Gaming Media
Artur Lugmayr, Helja Franssila, Pertti Näränen, Olli Sotamaa, Jukka Vanhala, Zhiwen Yu. © 2012. 312 pages.
Media in the ubiquitous area is undergoing a tremendous change. Social media and Web 2.0 are applied in ever more diverse practices both in private and public communities and...
Portable Personality and its Personalization Algorithms: An Overview and Directions
Portable Personality and its Personalization Algorithms: An Overview and Directions
Stefan Uhlmann, Artur Lugmayr. © 2012. 28 pages.
With the advances in ubiquitous computing, there is an increasing focus on personalization of user information especially in web-based applications and services. Currently those...
Ambient Media Culture: What Needs to be Discussed When Defining Ambient Media from a Media Cultural Viewpoint?
Ambient Media Culture: What Needs to be Discussed When Defining Ambient Media from a Media Cultural Viewpoint?
Artur Lugmayr. © 2012. 7 pages.
Ambient media is a new form of media, which deals with media objects that mediate information throughout the natural environment of people. In ambient media environments, the...
Ambient Media and Home Entertainment
Ambient Media and Home Entertainment
Artur Lugmayr, Alexandra Pohl, Max Müehhäueser, Jan Kallenbach, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos. © 2010. 13 pages.
Media are “[media] means effecting or conveying something such as (1) a surrounding or enveloping substance; or (2) a condition or environment in which something may function or...
Emotional Ambient Media
Emotional Ambient Media
Artur Lugmayr, Tillmann Dorsch, Pabo Roman Humanes. © 2010. 17 pages.
The “medium is the message”: nowadays the medium as such is non-distinguishable from its presentation environment. However, what is the medium in an ambient environment, when the...
Open Information Management: Applications of Interconnectivity and Collaboration
Open Information Management: Applications of Interconnectivity and Collaboration
Samuli Niiranen, Jari Yli-Hietanen, Artur Lugmayr. © 2009. 498 pages.
Contemporary digital tools have revolutionized the storing, transfer, and processing of information management. Open Information Management: Applications of Interconnectivity and...
International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI)
International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI)
Nilanjan Dey. Est. 2009.
In an ambient intelligence world, devices work in concert to support people in carrying out everyday life activities and tasks in a natural way using information and intelligence...
Emotional Ambient Media
Emotional Ambient Media
Artur Lugmayr, Tillmann Dorsch, Pabo Roman Humanes. © 2009. 17 pages.
The “medium is the message”: nowadays the medium as such is non-distinguishable from its presentation environment. However, what is the medium in an ambient environment, when the...
Internet Protocol Television
Internet Protocol Television
Kate Carney Landow, Michelle Fandre, Raghu Nambiath, Ninad Shringarpure, Harvey Gates, Artur Lugmayr, Scott Barker. © 2008. 25 pages.
This chapter focuses on evaluating Internet protocol television (IPTV) business models from different service providers through the prism of the Star Model. The tool is based on...
Ambient Media and Home Entertainment
Ambient Media and Home Entertainment
Artur Lugmayr, Alexandra Pohl, Max Müehhäueser, Jan Kallenbach, Konstantinos Chorianopoulos. © 2007. 18 pages.
This chapter glimpses the future of modern ambient HE systems. Experts in the field of ambient media discuss and contribute to four major lines of the future development of...