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Cross-cultural study of the use of mobile phones
E.A. Draffan (Univ. of Southampton, UK), Kenryu Nakamura, Mamoru Iwabuchi (Univ. of Tokyo,
Japan),Takeo Kondo, Sheryl Burgstahler (Univ. of Washington,
USA)
Mobile phones were identified in the Horizon Report (2009)as the technologies with the highest likelihood of entry into the mainstream of learning-focused institutions within the next year. The fastest-growing sales segment belongs to smart phones (2010) http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2009/ & http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/
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Research• Check features on top 10 mobile phones are
similar in Europe, USA and East Asia. • Do the strategies from The Magical Pocket of
Aki-chan Project (Japan), LexDis (UK) and DO-IT program (USA) fit the features available?
• Send out questionnaire using Survey Monkey to students with disabilities age range 15-25 including those at university – 220 replies
Questions
• Age and Country • Which phone do you use? (make and number)• What difficulties do you experience?• Have your difficulties made it harder to have
the mobile phone you wanted? If so why?• What made you choose your present phone?• How often do you use these features?• Anything else you want to say about using a
mobile phone.
Top 10 Mobiles – BCN ranking, USA and UK (Sept 2010)
• Apple iPhone 4• SonyEricsson Xperia
Hitachi beskey• Kyocera K004• Panasonic P-07B• Fujitsu Rakuraku-
phone 7• SonyEricsson UB
Fujitsu F-06B• NEC N-06B• Fujitsu Rakuraku-
phone Basic II
Apple iPhone 4 HTC DesireHTC LegendGoogle Nexus OneHTC HeroApple iPhone 3GSSamsung Galaxy Europa GT-i5500Huawei IdeosMotorola Milestone XT720Samsung Galaxy Apollo GT-i5801
Apple iPhone 4 HTC Droid IncredibleHTC Evo 4GRIM BlackBerry Bold 9700Samsung Epic 4GT-Mobile G2Samsung FascinateHTC DesireSony Ericsson Xperia X10Motorola Droid 2
If my phone could change text to reduce glare this
would be brill
Speaking instructions - hard to remember the
commands or which button sets it working. e.g phone
home
The 'large' text option on for font is
not very large!
Due to fear of getting frustrated at not
knowing a feature, I had the blackberry for
6 months in a box before I started using it a year ago. I am still
not familiar with all the features.
ExamplesI take a picture as
reminder and open webpages to save
them as bookmarks so I can see the whole
later
Take pictures of whiteboards and other information (e.g. slides) to save
making notes
I use it to time activities...e.g. walking to the shops. Then save
this information as a spread sheet. As I massively misjudge amount of
time activities take.
I also use the camera to take pictures of
people I meet (with their permission) as I have a very very poor memory for names, so often cant find them in my phone book. The
pictures help a lot.
The fact the internet is always on hand is excellent for spelling, maps etc. I now cant imagine
how I would manage without it, as I use it several times a day.
I read PDF documents on iPhone on the way to school.
using the notes to remember things, and using the alarm more than most people.
Strategies
• Communication• Alternative for
handwriting• Alternative for Viewing • Memory Aid &
comprehension• Finding information and
vocabulary • Organisation/Time
Management
• Understanding Time• Alternative for Reading• Location• Electronic money• Visual Aid• Alternative for Writing• Alternative for Typing• Notifying Alert
Thank you The Magical Pocket of Aki-chan Project has been co-researched by the Research Centre of Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo and SoftBank Mobile Corp. (started June 2009) http://at2ed.jp/sbm/mp.pdfContact e-mail: [email protected]
LexDis Project – JISC Funded at University of Southampton http://www.lexdis.org.uk Contact e-mail: [email protected]