Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Entertainment and media in the ubiquitous era

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 12th MindTrek Conference and the International Academic Conference MindTrek 2008 Entertainment and Media in the Ubiqutious Era. The MindTrek scientific track was premiered in 2007 in a smaller scale however, this year it is extended on a larger scale and in cooperation with ACM. MindTrek as event as such exists since 12 years, and extended its activities yearly. The academic tracks aim at the presentation of cutting edge research results in the field of ubimedia, social media, and gaming. An interdisciplinary team of international researchers was brought together to research the future of media technology from different perspectives. The accepted papers have been divided into the three main tracks of the conference: ubimedia, social media, and games between the 7th and 9th of October in Tampere, Finland. Most of the papers will be presented on Tuesday Oct 7th. The call for papers attracted submissions from 24 countries in Asia, Europe, South America, North America and Australia.