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Nokia's Cellphone Anthropologist

Posted by timothy on from the cell-phones-need-louder-alarm-clocks dept.

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist have an interview with a Nokia researcher who uses anthropological methods to study how people use their phones. His work currently focuses on watching how people in emerging markets like Africa use their devices to inform designs. For example, after finding that in Uganda many people use one handset, they shipped a version with multiple separate address books. There's also a slideshow of Chipchase's research images."

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  1. Delightful infotainment by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just watched a dozen or so images of Nokia phones.
    However, as I'm already a fully-hooked E61 geek, I was able to focus on reading the mildly interesting captions instead.
    So there!

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  2. Re:Cellphones as "enablers" by zappepcs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bill? Is that you? I've been trying to call you for a week. Your '61 El Camino is leaking oil on the road outside my house, the HOA is complaining. Come get your car. Oh, btw, your PO called. WTF? why'd you give him MY number... ASS!

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