Mobile Web Usage
Yesterday, I wrote about my research question. Today, I would like to look at some of the task categories people are completing on their cell phones and pda's using the web.
This list is more of a starting point for discussions than a finished product. I will be using this list to start having discussions with people to find out what types of sites they are visiting on their mobile devices.
My starting list:
- Photo Sharing / Services
- Personal Radio
- Online Music Stores
- RSS Feedreading
- News
- E-Commerce
- Maps & Directions
- Spreadsheets
- Finance
- Blogging
- Search
- Games
For my research, I plan on narrowing this list down to 8 - 10 clearly distinct categories.
To me, the category of e-commerce can be blown apart into many smaller categories that would be far more directed in terms of a study. The smaller categories could also be more representative of what users are actually doing online. For example, you may want to look up a review of a book on amazon, and possibly buy it, but you probably wouldn't be browsing through their entire listing of housewares for your new set of pots and pans.
So, the plan is to narrow this list down to what users are actually doing online with mobile devices.
