(Video) During last January I gave a Rapid Mobile Application Prototyping workshop at my University of Art and Design Helsinki in the department called Media Lab and I want to share the outcomes of fully working applications here with you via a Mobile Demo video. Some of the applications show the variety of areas in which students come up with ideas, others may spark inspiration e.g. when the phone is turned into an instrument using the N95 accelerometer (thanks Cyke64 for the aXYZ module !), or a walking robot is controlled via phone movement, or a collaborative Art piece is made by providing a mobile mobile multi-user application for interacting with a large screen etc.

Most of the participating students had never done any mobile phone programming before and only few had some programming experience at all. Nevertheless the New Media students managed to produce fully working applications based on their own ideas in 2 days. At the beginning of the workshop I was teaching the students for 3 days in hands-on style on how to program Python for S60 applications with the help of my PyS60 tutorial at http://www.mobilenin.com/pys60/menu.htm. After that the students formed groups and build their applications under my guidance in 2 days.

In case your department or company has interest in running a Rapid Mobile Application Prototyping workshop for triggering innovation for your own product portfolio, feel free to contact me.