User testing
I’ve been looking at how things like processing power, battery life, and communication bandwidth affect a user on a day to day basis, and have trying to find studies that have measured these things, without success.
I am planning to do a quick and dirty user study to find out mobile usage patterns: More specifically –
What sort of devices do users own, what do they use them for, what types of users can we define, what are users familliar with, etc.
Out of this I hope to show that we do not need to optimise for battery power, communications bandwidth is sufficient for most day to day tasks, and that processing power is abundant.