About at Some people call me Fredrik

I am Fredrik Boström, born in February 1980 in Jakobstad, Finland and resident in Helsinki since 2001. I’m currently working as lead UI Designer at Fonecta Digitaalinen Suora Oy, one of the leading mobile marketing service providers in Finland. My work focuses on our Kontaktikone service, a state of the art mobile marketing platform.

Publications

During my time as Assistant Researcher at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, I had the opportunity to author or co-author the following scientific publications.

Petteri Nurmi, Fredrik Boström, Patrik Floréen, Joonas Kukkonen, Eemil Lagerspetz, Peter Peltonen and Petri Saarikko: Massive – An Adaptive Shopping Assistant, Poster paper to appear at the 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2008), Seoul, South Korea, September 2008.
Fredrik Boström, Petteri Nurmi, Patrik Floreen, Tianyan Liu, Tiina-Kaisa Oikarinen, Akos Vetek, Peter Boda: Capricorn – An Intelligent User Interface for Mobile Widgets, In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI-2008), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September, 2008. ACM Press 2008.
Fredrik Boström: AndroMedia – Towards a Context-Aware Mobile Music Recommender. Master’s Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, May 2008.
Fredrik Boström, Patrik Floréen, Tianyan Liu, Petteri Nurmi, Tiina-Kaisa Oikarinen, Akos Vetek, Péter Boda: Capricorn – An Intelligent Interface for Mobile Widgets, Demonstration at the 12th International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2008), Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, January 2008. ACM Press, 2008.

Other than my official job, I almost always have one or two projects to think about on my spare time. Check out the Projects page for some info about ongoing endeavours.

Interests

Besides all kinds of outdoor activities like wall climbing and bicycling, photography is becoming a bigger part of my spare time activities, especially since I bought my first digital SLR (a Canon D30) from a friend of mine. So far I’m only shooting for fun, but I’d like to develop skills to be able to do some commercial gigs as well.