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Mobile Interaction Research @ Mobile Muse

Submitted by Jean Hébert on November 6, 2006 - 1:03pm.
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We've been involved in some fieldwork and focus groups over the past week, looking at user experience in interactive mobile applications. We're specifically looking for opportunities for user-generated content in a media-rich mobile communicative sphere.


It's too early to post any conclusions about our work (our report won't be available until December, as we have a few more focus groups left to do, plus coding and analysis of our data, and so forth), but I have a few preliminary observations and interpretations - to which I invite my collaborators and colleagues to add theirs.

More N80 Musings

Submitted by Richard Smith on October 25, 2006 - 12:43pm.
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A few months ago I got my first rich media mobile phone, the Nokia N80, and I have been using it ever since. The phone is remarkable - although I suspect that very soon these features will be considered standard on a phone - for a variety of reasons. It is clearly a version of what we'll see in mobile multimedia in the coming years.

Marek Pawlowski, who writes in the MEX blog, has an interesting blog post on the N80. The main point he makes, and I think it is a serious one, is that this phone has added considerable value to him and at every stage in that value chain he was able to bypass his network operator and use third party networks  and applications. In fact, a lot of the value proposition came *because* of the ability to bypass his network operator.


Nokia N80 - First Impressions Positive

Submitted by Richard Smith on June 27, 2006 - 6:34am.
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N80A new mobile. Is there anything like it? Especially when it is jam packed with new features, things you haven't seen before. Like:

3 megapixel camera - my old phone, a SonyEricsson T616, had a blurry little camera that took sub-megapixel images. Very sub. This camera, er phone, er mobile multimedia device takes great pictures. It even has a tiny little LED flash.

GPS - actually, it isn't built into the phone, but with Bluetooth and a new Bluetooth GPS and some nifty GPS software (SmartComGPS) on the phone, I can see my location, speed, heading, even have a little map underneath. If you are going to do context-related things then you really need to know where you are, I figure.  


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