Abhigyan - fascinating! Would love to include your thesis in our
mDirectory on MobileActive.org. Would you share it there (you can
upload directly at http://mobileactive.org/welcome, or send to us and
we'll do it for you. )
There is a lot of interest in using voice for information services and
India is far advanced there but we have not asked a lot of questions
about good design given the specific populations voice services might
be targeting. Would love to see the entire paper, and am copying
MobileActive-Discuss where there was some conversation recently about
voice services. Thanks!
Best,
Katrin
On Nov 15, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Abhigyan Singh wrote:
Hi Katrin,
I am replying to an old thread but I feel this will interest members
of mobile active/ mobile-society groups.
My recently finished master's thesis (title: Design Opportunities
and Challenges in Indian Urban Slums - Community Communication and
Mobile Phones) is based on two ethnographic field studies done in
urban slums of India. There are many interesting practices of mobile
phone use where social meanings of communication are shared and
constructed. For example, the way locals use missed call or beeping
to communicate. There are examples on how even non-communication has
a meaning. As the cost of 1 min. of phone call cost the same as 1
sms on many networks many participants communicated how they have
increasingly started to make phone calls.
Further, the communicative ecology of residents clearly shows the
prominence of 'voice' or oral mode of communication. The information
in local context is shared, maintained, communicated in oral form.
There are many informal 'human nodes' who facilitate the community
communication forming an informal network which helps in addressing
various informational needs of the local community. Relationships,
trust and social bonds play crucial role in context of community
communication at urban slums in India. Face-to-face communication
and voice call remains very important. In my thesis I have tried to
address these issues and many more to identify design opportunities
and challenges for mobile based community communication services.
You can see/download a visual overview of my thesis research from:
http://www.slideshare.net/abhigyan1107/masters-thesis-presentation-abhigyan-singh
If you wish to know more about the work then please feel free to
write to me.
Best Regards,
Abhigyan Singh
LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/in/agsingh
Sample Portfolio:
http://www.slideshare.net/abhigyan1107/portfolio-abhigyan-singh
CV: http://www.slideshare.net/abhigyan1107/cv-abhigyan-singh-5380529
Edelleenlähetetty viesti alkaa:
Lähettäjä: Katrin Verclas <kat...@mobileactive.org>
Päiväys: 10. elokuuta 2010 klo 1.54.59
Vastaanottaja: <richard.l...@telenor.com>
Kopio: <mobile-society@googlegroups.com>
Aihe: Vastaus: [mobile-society] Clive Thompson on the Death of the
Phone Call
Vastaus: <kat...@mobileactive.org>
Richard - thanks for sending this around. However, this is so very
American-centric ;) Clive clearly has not visited India much, the
fastest-growing mobile market today. With per-second billing there
for phone calls, people are chatting away much more so than they
are texting. And interruptions are fine - the social tolerance for
an unannounced call is very different in other parts of the world.
This would be a very rich field of inquiry - the prevalence of
calling and social uses of it and how they change with different
tariff schemes and cultural contexts. Wonder wether anyone has
written intelligently about this aspect of phone use particularly.
It certainly makes a huge difference in regard to designing
appropriate mobile services!
Thanks!
Katrin
On Aug 6, 2010, at 8:30 AM, <richard.l...@telenor.com> <richard.l...@telenor.com
> wrote:
Dear all,
Here is an interesting piece by Clive Thompson on voice calls,
etc. It is interesting that a device that was originally designed
to talk into has morphed into a texting, picture taking, net-
surfing, all purpose electronic item.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/st_thompson_deadphone/
Rich L.
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