What is the MEE?

The Mobile Experience Engine (MEE) is a software development platform for creating advanced context-aware applications and media-rich experiences for mobile devices. This unique platform enables mobile experiences to be rapidly prototyped for a high quality, stable end product. It is particularly designed for location-based and context-aware experiences using GPS, Bluetooth, and other peer-to-peer platforms.

Basically, the MEE is a new software that radically simplifies the process of creating and managing applications for mobile devices.

History of the MEE

The Mobile Experience Engine was created at the ART Mobile Lab, Concordia University, and Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) by engineering team Tom Donaldson, Daviid Gauthier and Rupinder Deol working in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of mobile application researchers as part of the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN).

Funded by Canadian Heritage from 2005 to March 2007, the MDCN researched content creation, applications and technology for next generation mobile devices. MEE development was supported by MDCN Principal Investigators, Sara Diamond and Michael Longford, the Banff New Media Institute, Concordia University, OCAD, and Hexagram: Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts & Technologies.

In 2006/07, Rupinder Deol of the ART Mobile Lab developed a new Java2ME version of the MEE to compliment the existing C++ version, and the J2ME version is still the primary development focus at the Banff lab.

More About MEE

The MEE has proven itself to be a powerful tool for mobile experience development, and is presently being open-sourced to enable mobile application developers to take advantage of its full capabilities. Find out more about the MEE by sending us an email at mobilelab@banffcentre.ca