01.03.2011 Sounds of Helsinki receives funding from Aalto Media Factory

01.03.2011 Sounds of Helsinki receives funding from Aalto Media Factory

Aalto Media Factory granted HIIT 20k€ for development work to be done in UIx'
Musiquitous together with Adaptive computing group. The funding makes possible
of further development of Capella, a mobile music player, which logs interaction
and context data. Capella prototype will be used to research some of the
concepts of Sounds of Helsinki, a platform for location-based music services.

Field tests with users will be done in August 2011.

More about Sounds of Helsinki: http://mediafactory.aalto.fi/?p=786
More about Capella (later this spring): http://universe.hiit.fi/capella/