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Web Browsing on Mobile Phones - Characteristics of User Experience
Browsing the Web with a small mobile phone may sound absurd at first. The increasing importance of the Internet means, however, that a person should be able to access Web services even when not sitting in front of a computer. Since there are approximately three times more mobile phones than computers in the world, a mobile phone may provide the only way to access the Web for many people.Technically, it has been possible to access the Internet on a mobile phone for several years already, but the mobile browsing experience has often been cumbersome for ordinary people. Understanding the user needs in different use contexts is the key to improving the user experience and thereby popularizing device independent access to Internet.
In her dissertation research, Virpi Roto has interviewed users of mobile browsers in several countries, and identified characteristics that help improve the mobile browsing user experience if taken into consideration. In addition to user and use context, all the system components should be taken into account: device, browser, network infrastructure, and web site. A partial outcome of the research is a visualization method called Minimap, which has gathered publicity as the first practical way to view Web pages on a mobile phone. The method has been used in Nokia S60 phones since 2006.
NRC - Web Browsing on Mobile Phones - Characteristics of User Experience
Ten Things You Didn't Know About Mobile TV
With Mobile TV being hyped as the next big thing in the telecoms world the big question is whether the experience is sufficiently compelling to draw people into become paying subscribers. Mobile TV faces significant competition for people's time, not least from other applications on the device itself. Where, how and why do people watch Mobile TV? What elements need to be in place to offer a seamless and compelling experience? What are the real world barriers to a achieving this and how can they be overcome? And ultimately what are the characteristics of this emerging medium that set will it apart from its competitors and help it both find and cement its niche in the media landscape?
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect Mobile TV, Personal Experiences
Towards a Ubiquitous Networking World
... the world of ubiquitous computing envisioned by Dr. Mark Weiser at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center more than 10 years ago now seems just around the corner, thanks to the advancement of microchip technologies and short-distance wireless technologies in recent years. In an ideal ubiquitous networking world, a vast number of computing devices that are found everywhere provide people with the best services by automatically tracking their needs, objects and surrounding environments. Ubiquitous networking offers us a chance to create a new world that can best be described as a "ultra-environment" by linking the real space to the virtual one; real people, objects, and environment are organically connected with contents and date in a virtual world created via networks.
NTT DoCoMo R&D - Persons 001-Towards a Ubiquitous Networking World
Mobiles 'cleared' of cancer risk
Long or short-term mobile phone use is not associated with increased risk of cancer, a major study has found. Mobile phone antennas emit electromagnetic fields that can penetrate the human brain.But a Danish team found no evidence that this was linked to an increased risk of tumours in the head or neck as had been feared.
The study, of more than 420,000 mobile phone users, appears in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
