Forum Nokia Champion Personal Introduction Page

Mr. Mika Raento
Ph.D. (Computer Science)
United Kingdom

I am a software engineer at Google, working on social mobile applications.

Before joining Google I worked at Jaiku, a Finnish startup. At Jaiku we created a Web service and an S60 application that allowed a person to publish his or her “activity stream” on the Web and follow the activity streams of friends. The S60 client brought Live Contacts, an address book with presence — location, availability, and activity stream updates. Jaiku was acquired by Google in October 2007. You can see the service in action at www.jaiku.com.

Jaiku grew in part out of my doctoral work at the University of Helsinki, where our research group created a rich-presence application for S60. That application sparked my collaboration with Jyri Engestrom, a collaboration that shaped the initial launch of Jaiku and became the basis of the Jaiku S60 client.

I have worked with the S60 platform since the launch of the Nokia 7650 imaging phone, and I have been a Forum Nokia Champion since 2006.

Development Areas of Interest

Mobile platforms

S60

Application categories

Social awareness (Presence), media publication and sharing, research data logging

Programming languages

Client side: C++; Server side: Perl, Java™

Integrated development environments (IDEs)

Visual Studio 6.0

Wireless device technologies

Symbian and S60, TCP/IP over GPRS, Jabber

Other areas of interest

Context-aware and ubiquitous computing, privacy management, software architectures

Personal Competencies

Languages

Finnish (native)
English
Swedish
some French and German

Mobile competencies

Symbian C++, Jabber, interaction design

Forum Nokia Community activity areas

Nokia Symbian forums, Symbian's newsgroups, creating Web resources, open source

Other competencies

Software and system design

Main Achievements

Applications

Merkitys-Meaning: contextual media publishing (flickr)
ContextPhone: prototyping platform for context-aware mobile applications
Series 60 gnubox: TCP/IP over Bluetooth

Books and other publications

ContextPhone -- A prototyping platform for context-aware mobile applications, Mika Raento, Antti Oulasvirta, Renaud Petit, Hannu Toivonen. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 4 (2): 51-59, 2005.

ContextContacts -- Re-Designing SmartPhone's Contact Book to Support Mobile Awareness and Collaboration, Antti Oulasvirta, Mika Raento, Sauli Tiitta, Proceedings of MobileHCI '05, ACM (2005), p. 167-174.

Context software -- A prototype platform for contextual mobile applications, Mika Raento. In Proceedings of the International Proactive Computing Workshop. University of Helsinki, 2004.

Speaking engagements

ContextPhone presentations at:

• Proactive Computing Workshop (PROW 2004), Helsinki, November 2004
• Pervasive and Locative Arts Network workshop, University of Nottingham, October 2005
• University of Jyväskylä, November 2005
• Basic Research Unit, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, February 2006

Hosted Web pages

S60 development articles
Indexed ContextPhone source
Context group page

Mobile communities in which I am active

Symbian's developer newsgroups

Contact Information

Personal Web Pages

www.iki.fi/mikie/

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