The Big Picture
An interesting article with future UX implications ...
"As the leader of Sony Corporation's mobile media research and design groups in Tokyo, John Poisson spent two years focused on how people use cameraphones, and why they don't use them more often. Now, he and human-computer interaction researchers Chris Beckmann and Scott Lederer are developing cameraphone software and services they hope will get the world snapping and sharing. The ubiquity of cameraphones could lead to a "whole new class of photography," Poisson says, but only if people realize that the devices are much more than the digital equivalent of Polaroids in our pockets.
TheFeature: What have you learned over the course of your research?
Poisson: People think of the cameraphone as a more convenient tool for digital photography, an extension of the digital camera. That's missing the mark. The mobile phone is a communications device. The minute you attach a camera to that, and give people the ability to share the content that they're creating in real time, the dynamic changes significantly." continued ... (Via TheFeature)
"As the leader of Sony Corporation's mobile media research and design groups in Tokyo, John Poisson spent two years focused on how people use cameraphones, and why they don't use them more often. Now, he and human-computer interaction researchers Chris Beckmann and Scott Lederer are developing cameraphone software and services they hope will get the world snapping and sharing. The ubiquity of cameraphones could lead to a "whole new class of photography," Poisson says, but only if people realize that the devices are much more than the digital equivalent of Polaroids in our pockets.
TheFeature: What have you learned over the course of your research?
Poisson: People think of the cameraphone as a more convenient tool for digital photography, an extension of the digital camera. That's missing the mark. The mobile phone is a communications device. The minute you attach a camera to that, and give people the ability to share the content that they're creating in real time, the dynamic changes significantly." continued ... (Via TheFeature)
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