analog

sometimes, I do like analog.

concern the mobile phone contents for leisure?

“Nearly 37% of people over 65 spend ‘all or nearly all’ of their leisure time at home”

By Jenni Waugh, Access and Social Policy Officer, MLA West Midlands

Retrieved from http://www.projectsetc.org

From my research, most older people can afford to enjoy their life but there are not enough contents for older people.

“Older users may have a substantial command of income, with children grown up and with mortgages paid off, they can control a significant portion of the country’s wealth, saving and spending power.”                 (Lee and Kim,2003)

Especially in mobile phone contents area. Mobile phone is not just a device or talking tool anymore now. It is like a personal computer or personality. However most older people use the mobile phone only for ‘talking’ to someone. The reason for this is, ‘the lack of contents for them’.

Mobile phone company only target for younger people (18-25) and that’s why there is no contents that older people can get involve into the ‘mobile world’ even though they’ve got the latest model of mobile phone.

Marketing target is changing now and it has to be changed. They really need the contents for enriching the use of mobile phone and it is fair.  Why only younger people has their own contents?

Reference

Lee,K.S., and Kim, B. (2003). A study on the usability of mobile phones for the elderly. In M. Kumashino (Ed). Aging and work (pp. 261-169). London : Taylor and Francis.

My writing

Well, I talked about the problem of writing last week and that was mainly about ‘English’. I think I like free writing and actually I don’t have any big problem about blogging. I do blogging everyday in both my Korean blog and this blog because I love blogging. And I do prefer reading ‘hypertext’ style writing rather than ‘long and essay’ style writing.
However, I have to read books in english then understand in Korean. And the sentences come out in Korean then I have to write in English.
Also it is hard to find the ‘GOOD and CORRECT/RIGHT expression or words’ when I write something. Like Adrian suggested to me, I have to find someone who can read through my writings before I submit.

Overall, my problems are,

1. reading slowly so it takes long time to understand and get the information before I start to write
2. English/language barrier

a brief history of mobile phone

First Generation (1G)

• The first generation mobile phone were developed in the 1980s

Second Generaion (2G)

• GSM, CDMA,TDMA are the different protocols that brought the mobile phone into the second generation.
• SMS (Short Message Service) is added for 2G mobile phones.
• It is introduced to the market in early 1990s

Second and Half Generation (2.5G)

• provided services such as WAP (Wireless Applicaiton Protocol)
• GPRS (General Packet Radio Services)
• Coloured screen with camera (not all phones)

Third Generation (3G)

• a whole new network in 21st century
• IMT-2000
• UMTS
• W-CDMA
• high speed connection
• internet access
• video calls

Retrieved from M/Cyclopedia:http://wiki.media-culture.org.au

2nd Draft for silvobile

Here is the PDF file of my 1000 words of 2nd draft of silvobile research project.

click here –>why-i-am-doing-this

Students mobilising older txters

High school students teach the seniors how to send mobile phone text messages. And older people really enjoyed to learn it. Yes, older people can use the new technologies. They don’t use the new technologies because they are just unfamiliar with it.

www.abc.net.au

Content is King

Says Motorola’s marketing director (India and South-West Asia) Lloyd Mathias,

“We feel that pre-embedded content is quite important to highlight device capabilities.”

article is from, economictime.indiatimes.com

77%

According to cellphone tracker M:Metrics,

“More than 77% of people age 55 to 64 have mobile phones, and the share of the entire U.S. population owning mobile phones in 86%.”

When I read this today, I found it is very interesting because 77% is HUGE and I was not sure how many older people owns the mobile phones. I just thought that below 40% only! 77% is really big percentage and I have more motivation to do my research project.

ps: Journal is awesome. Actually I think I can get good up-to-date information about my research topic through journal rather than only reading books. So I am going to read both journals and books together.

silvobile and thought : 1st Draft

The research that I am undertaking is ‘mobile phone contents for older people who are over 50 in Australia’. I am a producer of mobile phone contents for older people for this research and I am approaching to this project as a creator and researcher. It is no doubt to say that we are living in the new technology world and especially almost everyone brings his or her mobile phones to everywhere. Like this, mobile phones becomes essential technical and social networking tools these days however older people cannot enjoy the new technological advantages because of lack of specific contents for them. There are two main focuses why I am undertaking this research.

First, the stereotype is that older people won’t like new technologies however it is not. According to cellphone tracker M:Metrics, more than 77% of people age 55 to 64 have mobile phones and the share of the entire U.S. population owning mobile phones is 86%.
Second, the 50-and-up aging group will be the largest group in the future. According to a Boomer Project analysis of Census data, “This age group will grow to 113 million people by 2017. By contrast, the age 18-to 49 demographic traditionally favored by marketers will increase less than 1% to 136 million.” These two reasons are the main reasons why I am doing this research project.

The main research methods that I am taking are Design Research, Research Interviews, Surveys and Internet Research. Firstly Design Research is main methodology among others. Even though it is designed for designers, I will use this to get feed back from older people what they really want to have for their mobile phone contents directly. Also when I have draft of mobile phone contents then I can review the contents that I make before getting the final products. Thus Design Research can help me to interact real people who are going to use the contents that I make.
Secondly, research interviews and surveys also let me allow getting opinions of older people about problems of using mobile phone contents and what they really want to improve with their opinions. Also these methodologies are easily accessible and furthermore they are interactive. Once again, interact is important in this research project.
Lastly, Internet research is essential methodology to gather up-to-date information about new technologies of mobile phones, new trends of mobile phones and new services or contents of mobile phones not only in Australia but also other countries. Also the forums of Internet communities are very helpful to communicate with people as well. The most important thing to use Internet research is the promptness.

The ultimate product of my research project is producing mobile phone contents for older people. This will make older people to have more opportunities to get involve into the new media society also they can produce their own mobile phone contents rather than being passive and relying on the contents that have been made not only for older people. Also this mobile phone contents are not only for marketing purpose to earn money for the mobile phone company. In coming of aging society, older people will be the majority demographic.

website that I’ve been looking for!

seniors.gov.au is the website and information that I’ve been looking FOR!!!

YAY for me!