Pattern Language

http://www.mobiledia.com

Survey Finds 50% of Teens Prefer Cell Phones to TV (In North America)
Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:31 am

That page has a lot of articles and i picked 2 which i think is relevant to our study.

- online survey, across North America between the ages of 13 and 18 from July 30 to August 9, 2005
- (38 percent) of teens surveyed use their mobile phones to text-message their friends during school
- 30 percent play video games on their phones while in school
- (26 percent) use their phones to talk to people their parents would not approve of
- teens are very attached to their mobile phones
- Indication from the article: parents giving hp to child below 12 (impt point)
- reason for looking at this: similar situation in singapore, find out what teenagers want to do with their hp, target martket.


Bosses Can't Live Without Cell Phones
Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:46 am

- Study showed that CFOs (44%) said that hp are the most indispensible portable technology
- surveys were developed by Robert Half Management Resources, the world's premier provider of senior-level accounting and finance professionals on a project and interim basis 1400 cfos US companies
- latest cell phone technology combines the best of both worlds, including e-mail and Internet access that allow for expanded capabilities in one tool
- have become a necessity in our lives, they can keep us connected to work around-the-clock

Edited 11:29pm 31st August
Edited the links to make them work so that others can access the article
~Z~

Patterns are recurring solutions to a standard problem
Schmidt, Fayad, Johnson (1996)

Interesting Definition?

Just read http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home2003/chua0015/fyp/mobileinteractionpatterns.pdf

Patterns of Mobile Interaction (Jorg Roth)

The weird part is that the thing which strikes me the most is the example of how to describe a pattern. Which I will elaborate a little on here.
Descriptions contain the following sections:

Synopsis
A brief description of the problem

Context
The situation which results in the problem

Forces
The underlying cause of the problem

Solution
Proposed/Workable Solution

Consequences
Problems which may arise as a result of the solution and additional steps required to make the solution workable/better

Examples
Examples of solutions

Related Patterns
Self-Explanatory

Classes
Category the pattern falls into e.g. Security, Mobile Code, Streaming, User Interface etc.

They also have a list of some mobility patterns

Synchronisation
RemoteProxy
VirtualPresence
RequestObject
PushObject
LocalProxy
OneWayStream
Conversational
VirtualWindow
CannedCode
Sensing

Has anyone tried Google Talk yet? Its the new IM client which supposedly links alot of different IM networks. If you haven't tried it, its the PERFECT example of network externalities I've seen.
Nicely streamlined, it looks good with no ads or stuff, also it offers easy voice conversation and email. However, the simple fact that currently nobody's on my Google talk list means that... I have this very nice messaging client which is perhaps superior to MSN Messenger which dosen't let me message anyone. Hmmm...
Gmail's tactic of secrecy might have worked against them here ya?
Oh yea... once you pple actually DO read this, go try downloading and adding me chuachengyi at gmail

Just to check who's been reading and updating.. or even interested in this thing.
Once you read this, please SMS/Call me to confirm receipt of this message.

Additionally, my group will be meeting 9.30am on Monday 29th August. Yx, Cyn and Jess are welcome to join us ya.

Please keep updated with your readings.

And yes. Don't tell anyone else about this message once you see it.

-Edited 28th July 2005 2253Hrs: Cyn has read this-

Time to get started...
This site's mostly about designing for computers but this particular page teaches what type of design to use for smaller screens such as handphones and PDAS...
http://time-tripper.com/uipatterns/One-Window_Drilldown

This post is to demonstrate how to link a file for others to download from H: drive.
The path is

"www.ntu.edu.sg/home2003/username/filename"
NKF.doc