In the School of Design we are working with the Nokia N73 from a different angle. Our class has analyzed the out of the box experience as well as the usability of the phone. However, that is not what this blog post is about. I'm here to give an update on our project. Our project has been roughly defined as Mobile Journalism. We took the task of defining the term, the culture, and the interfaces available. From there we worked on trying the capture different ways to improve the way users can supply content for other users and professional news agencies.
From our research we gathered that limiting an interface to the citizen journalists alone presents a far too small demographic. More interest lies in a program/web-site that encourages users to add content of all types, from vacation photos, to concert footage to news events. Along those lines we are going to be creating a system that allows users to share video and pictures across a network searching through time and space. I'm posting a link to a pdf of our fist presentation. This presentation was our status report for the beginning of the project. More posts will follow in regards to this particular project.
