August 9, 2004
Mobile Users Want Visual Communication
Something I missed in TheFeature.com but picked up on Alan Reiter's Camera Phone Report.
"In the fifth of a series of interviews with academics researching mobile communications, Professor Kristov Nyiri - director of the Institute of Philosophical Research, part of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences - talks about why users don't just want the spoken word."
[...] "I still believe that person-to- person communication will be key, and that this will evolve in some interesting ways. I can imagine people filing "MMS journalism" and sending reports and images to friends. Users already listen to the radio and play MP3 on their mobile devices. Increasingly, they will watch TV clips. The mobile device will increasingly be seen as a broadcast medium.
[...] "Anything that can replicate face-to-face communications will be welcomed by users. To me, all the main things that are missing are linked to visual communications. Prehistoric man could gesture before he could talk. Users have an innate need for non-verbal communication".
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