Comparing internet and mobile phone usage: digital divides of usage, adoption, and dropouts

Rice, Ronald E.; Katz, James E.

doi:10.1016/s0308-5961(03)00068-5

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“…The objective is to classify the usage types and to then ascertain the relative impact of these usage types on the mobile phone network. There is other published work in this area [2][3][4] for other countries, but every society is unique in the rate of technology update and the use of mobile communications media. This work is the first quantitative analysis of the data traffic across the mobile networks for Ireland.…”

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Towards a Quantitative Model of Mobile Phone Usage Ireland - a Preliminary Study

Farrell

Carolan

McLoone

et al. 2012

IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC 2012)

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Abstract-Mobile phone networks were traditionally voice and SMS messaging networks which made them easy to quantify and model. More recently with the advent of broadband data connections and smart phones, mobile phone networks are being used for a wide range of purposes using ever more bandwidth. This paper utilises data provided by an Irish operator to provide an initial perspective on the current uses of mobile phone networks as a within Ireland. This work serves as a precursor to the development of a quantitative model of existing behaviour which in turn will help predict future requirements.

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Towards a Quantitative Model of Mobile Phone Usage Ireland - a Preliminary Study

Farrell

Carolan

McLoone

et al. 2012

IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC 2012)

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“…Adults tend to use mobile phones for personal/family safety and job-related purposes rather than social and hedonic reasons (Conci, Pianesi, and Zancanaro, 2009), while the older adults mostly use mobile phones as a support for their functional autonomy, and to enable them to continue living independently in their own homes (Boulton-Lewis, Buys, Lovie-Kitchin, Barnett, and David, 2007). Differences in mobile phone usage are also influenced by characteristics of work, income, education, marital status as well as by the attitudes, behaviors and perceived benefits of mobile phones (Rice and Katz, 2003).…”

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Attitudes of older mobile phone users towards mobile phones

Vicente

Lopes

2016

Communications

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Abstract:Research on mobile technology adoption has focused predominantly on young adults, and little attention has been paid to older people. But with rapidly aging populations in most developed countries, and evidence from many studies that older adults are as capable of adopting and using mobile technology as everybody else, the academic, business and technology industry worlds are devoting more attention to this group. Research has already demonstrated that older people differ from young people in their perceptions, preferences and usage of mobile technology, but there are also differences within the older adults group regarding mobile technology adoption. Using data from a mobile phone survey, this study identifies segments of mobile phone users among older adults based on their attitudes towards mobile phones, and describes the underlying differences between these segments in terms of key values towards mobile phone communications, mobile phone use, and socio-demographics. The analysis led to the identification of three distinct segments, designated as "Apathetic", "Social and hedonic" and "Busy and active".

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“…When the students referred to "location" they were probably referring to the areas participants lived in that reliably (in South Africa) serve as an indicator of their socio-economic standing. Rice & Katz were indeed able to confirm that this impacts mobile phone usage [36]. This, too, is confirmed by the Unicef report on the use of mobile phones in South Africa.…”

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Designing Mobile Phone Interfaces for Age Diversity in South Africa: “One-World” versus Diverse “Islands”

Renaud

Blignaut

Venter

2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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Abstract.Designing for diversity is a laudable aim. How to achieve this, in the context of mobile phone usage by South African seniors, is a moot point. We considered this question from two possible perspectives: universal (one-world) versus focused design (designing for diverse "islands" of users). Each island would be characterised by a measure of relative homogeneity in terms of user interface needs. Our particular focus in this paper is age diversity. The universal approach attempts to deliver a design that can be all things to all peoplemeeting the needs of all users within one user interface. The islander approach delivers specific and different designs for islands within a diverse world. To determine which the best approach would be, in the South African context, we dispatched a team of student researchers to interview participants from an older generation, on a one-to-one basis. It was beneficial to deploy aspiring designers to carry out this research because we wanted to confront aspiring researchers with the differences between their own and other generations' usage of, and attitudes towards, mobile phones. Our study found that there were indeed significant age-related differences in mobile phone usage. Our research delivered insights that led to a model of the factors impacting mobile phone usage of the senior generation as a series of filters between the user and their device. We conclude that the island approach is more suitable for age-specific design. This approach might well become less fitting as a more technologically experienced population ages, but at present there is a clear need for an agesensitive mobile interface design.

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Comparing internet and mobile phone usage: digital divides of usage, adoption, and dropouts

Cited by 447 publications

References 13 publications

Towards a Quantitative Model of Mobile Phone Usage Ireland - a Preliminary Study

Towards a Quantitative Model of Mobile Phone Usage Ireland - a Preliminary Study

Attitudes of older mobile phone users towards mobile phones

Designing Mobile Phone Interfaces for Age Diversity in South Africa: “One-World” versus Diverse “Islands”

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