Eduardo Sciammarella

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Eduardo Sciammarella is a prominent designer specializing in user interfaces for mobile and social technologies.

After receiving his B.S. in Design from Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology, Sciammarella won the Grand Prize in Sony's 1991 International Student Design Competition. He went on to become one of the top designers at Sony, developing for numerous divisions including Sony Music, Sony Pictures, and the Sony Creative Center. While at Sony he received the G-Mark award for his design of “Visual Flow,” a media browsing application for MemoryStick and VAIO computers.

Sciammarella founded Protohaus, a technology and design consulting firm specializing in mobile media, in 2004. He is also the founder and CEO of Protomobl, a Protohaus spin-off company that creates Mobile social network interface software.

Among the projects developed by Sciammarella at Protohaus are:

gearON, a suite of four interconnected media-sharing applications for mobile devices, was released in the spring of 2006. gearON is a User Interface for mobile devices that is designed with Social Networks in mind. It was named one of the twelve "connected innovators" at the 2006 Supernova conference.
The four application modules, integrated through a buddy list, are as follows:

LifeChannel - Rich-media mobile bloging application organized in time.
MediaLife - Manage and share media (movies, music, games).
NaviLife - Group event coordination.
LocalLife - Map system where, aside from navigation, users can annotate and browse ideas/media by location.

sWave, a broadband content-delivery interface.

MediaPond, a portable projection device being developed for multi-user computing.

Protohaus is also conducting new research in “zooming” and “panning” interfaces (ZUI's) for cellular phones.