Metaphors for the Mobile Internet

Pekka Isomursu; Rachel Hinman; Minna Isomursu; Mirjana Spasojevic

doi:10.1007/s12130-007-9033-5

Metaphors for the Mobile Internet

Pekka Isomursu (Corresponding Author), Rachel Hinman, Minna Isomursu, Mirjana Spasojevic

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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Abstract

This paper examines a set of metaphors for describing, understanding and characterising the Mobile Internet. The metaphors are a result of extensive user studies in the US, Hong Kong and Europe in the late 2006 and early 2007.
In these studies, we explored the user experience related to the Mobile Internet through in-depth contextual interviews with over 40 users, including a group in the US, which was deprived of their standard Internet PC access for several days.
Our analysis of the collected data resulted in six metaphors that can be used as powerful creative tools in designing Mobile Internet applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	259-268
Journal	Knowledge, Technology, and Policy
Volume	20
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12130-007-9033-5
Publication status	Published - 2007
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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