Thoughts » research http://grignani.org/thoughts Just another Grignani Sites site Mon, 19 Dec 2011 02:54:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Where's the Phone? http://grignani.org/thoughts/2005/wheres-the-phone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wheres-the-phone http://grignani.org/thoughts/2005/wheres-the-phone/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:37:26 +0000 raphael http://grignani.org/wp/?p=26 In 2004, I participated in a series of studies to understand where people carry mobile phones. Fumiko Ichikawa presented the first public results of this research in a paper entitled Where’s the Phone – a Study of Mobile Phone Location in Public Spaces (pdf – 343KB) at the Mobility 2005 conference in Guangzhou, China. This paper draws on data from the first 3 studies – Helsinki, Milan and New York.

I recommend you read Jan Chipchase detailed blog post about this and the follow up studies in Korea, China, Japan, etc.

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]]> http://grignani.org/thoughts/2005/wheres-the-phone/feed/ 0 Been there, done what? http://grignani.org/thoughts/2005/been-there-done-what/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=been-there-done-what http://grignani.org/thoughts/2005/been-there-done-what/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:35:27 +0000 raphael http://grignani.org/wp/?p=28 beenthere

Looking at this map, I realised a few things:
a) I have only discovered one place in 2005, although I have traveled to fifteen different cities in nine different countries. Appalling.
b) This map is not visualising accurately my travels. In reality, I am traveling from nod to nod (cities to cities or even districts to districts), and not country-to-country. It is a fine difference but I have always had a hard time to telling I have been to Russia when I’ve only been to St Petersburg and Novgorod. What do you actually learn, experience, and understand when you have such a limited exposure to a city, country, and culture? e.g. tour bus trip and tour bus ethnography.
c) I visit over and over the same cities, and I’m drawn back to the places I have lived no matter what I do.
Conclusion, these three behaviours are a pattern that appears consistently in the things I currently do and/or use.

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