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Mobile users in the U.S. use mobile Internet services more than UK users

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2008-02-27 15:55:00 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...participants reporting daily usage in the U.S. compared to 46% in the U.K. However, it's not the web, users are accessing the most - it's directions, weather and email Other findings 96% of the study participants said they expect the mobile browsing experience to be the same or at least similar to the browsing experience on their PC Regarding...
 
Tags: mobile, mobile users, trust mobile video, mobile internet services, mobile tv, mobile ads, users, video, mobile internet
 
 
 
 
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Kinder, gentler: How to get an innocent person to confess to a crime

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2008-07-03 10:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...participants were warned that if they pressed the Alt key, the program would crash and all the data would be lost. The system was rigged so it would shut down after the experimenter asked the participants to type the Z key (which sits just to the left of the Alt key). The experimenter then interviewed the volunteers individually and asked...
 
Tags: false confession behaviour, confession, false confession, key, alt key, esc key sits, sits, esc key, minimization
 
 
 
 
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Hand-held Computers Prod Older Adults To Exercise More

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2008-02-06 11:16:18 by Josh in Medgadget
...participants approximately three minutes worth of questions Among the questions: Where are you now? Who are you with? What barriers did you face in doing your physical activity routine? The device automatically beeped once in the afternoon and once in the evening; if participants ignored it the first time, it beeped three additional times at...
 
Tags: prod, participants approximately, approximately, participants, hand-held computers prod, participants positive response, pda users, pda, gadgetry prod
 
 
 
 
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Wired.com's iPhone 3G Survey Reveals Network Weaknesses

2008-08-25 02:04:41 by Brian X. Chen in Gadget Lab
 
...Participants in Australia reported the slowest average 3G download speeds of about 759 Kbps The most " 0 " results for 3G download speeds came from U.S. participants -- presumably those dropped from the 3G network. In the United States, 63 participants reported "0" Altogether there were 80 "0" figures reported Users in Germany and the...
 
Tags: download speeds, speeds, iphone, average download speeds, carrier, carrier att tied, average, att, edge download
 
 
 
 
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Relax: No One is Reading Your Mind

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2008-01-04 08:29:27 by Michael in Medgadget
...participants with two types of visual stimuli: ESP stimuli and non-ESP stimuli. [Samuel Moulton is a graduate student in the department of psychology at Harvard --ed.] These two types of stimuli were identical with one exception: ESP stimuli were not only presented visually, but also were presented telepathically, clairvoyantly, and...
 
Tags: esp stimuli, stimuli, visual stimuli, stimuli precognitively, precognitively, stimuli clairvoyantly, clairvoyantly, non-esp stimuli, study offers scientists
 
 
 
 
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Safari Leads Mobile Browsing Experience

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2008-01-16 17:05:20 by Patrick Birmingham in Cell Phone Digest
...participants, including Ease of Accessing the browser, Ease of Entering a Website Address, Ease of Web Page Navigation, Saving a Bookmark and Ease of Returning to Previous Pages David Kerr, Vice President of the Global Wireless Practice, added "Internet Explorer matched Safari in terms of ease of web access and ease of saving a page as a...
 
Tags: experience, safari, web page navigation, page navigation, page, user experience team, ease, equal safari, internet explorer
 
 
 
 
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Michail Bletsas on the OLPC's Shipping Problems

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2008-01-22 15:47:00 by Brian Heater in Gearlog
...participants provided P.O. Box addresses and FedEx doesn't deliver to them. USPS is being used to ship those laptops 4. Undeliverable addresses. We had laptops returned to the warehouse by FedEx, because they could not deliver to the specified address. Again, we are contacting the participants in order to get a valid "ship to" address For the...
 
Tags: g1g1 laptops, laptops, g1g1, g1g1 program, bletsas, michail bletsas, g1g1 promotion, olpc, g1g1 participants
 
 
 
 
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Out of Body Out of Mind

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2008-01-24 16:29:10 by Michael in Medgadget
...participants wore virtual reality goggles connected to video cameras that filmed the participants backs. Thus each participant saw his or her own body from the back But this trick alone did not induce an out-of-body experience. (And a good thing too. Otherwise you might have an out-of-body experience every time you check out your own backside...
 
Tags: body, body experience inside, inside, virtual body, out-of-body experience, participants, visual events, illusion, mind matters blog
 
 
 
 
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The Social Ladder Is Really In Your Head

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2008-04-25 17:56:34 by Michael in Medgadget
...participants played an interactive computer game for money. They were assigned a status that they were told was based on their playing skill. In fact, the game outcomes were predetermined and the other "players" simulated by computer. While their brain activity was monitored by fMRI, participants intermittently saw pictures and scores of an...
 
Tags: artificial social hierarchy, social hierarchy, activity, brain activity, brain, emotional pain circuitry, pain, human brain appears, appears