User experience of smart phones in mobile journalism: early findings on influence of professional role

  • Authors:
  • Heli Väätäjä

  • Affiliations:
  • Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We used an online questionnaire in the end of a case study to explore whether and how professional role - the role of a news journalist or a news photographer - affects user experience of smart phones used for mobile news making. Fifteen participants assessed the pragmatic and hedonic qualities and an overall judgment of appeal of a smart phone based mobile journalism system. We found that photographers assessed the hedonic quality identification more negatively than journalists and a similar trend was found for hedonic quality stimulation. We did not find a statistically significant difference between the user groups for the perception of pragmatic qualities or overall judgment of appeal.