User Created Videos with Mobile Phones – Two Case Studies

Mobile phones have become new common tools for creating image and video content, but the research on user-created mobile videos is still rather rare. In this paper we present our on-going research looking at the use of mobile phone as a video camera. In this position paper we describe two studies that concentrate on two different aspects of mobile video composition, i.e. creating minimovies and using mobile video in everyday life settings. The authors believe that the research may reveal new usage practices or further possibilities that are linked e.g. to the social culture or with the use of the specific technology.