CameraPhone/ResearchStudies - Raymond Yee's Wiki

On January 26, 2005, I

mentioned a talk by Mirjana Spasojevic about the use of camera phones. Mirjana Spasojevic was kind enough to send me references to two of her papers:

1. T. Kindberg, M. Spasojevic, R. Fleck, A. Sellen 
  How and Why People Use Camera Phones 
  HP Labs Technical Report HPL-2004-216, to appear
  in the IEEE Pervasive Computing, Apr-Jun 2005.
   http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-216.pdf

2. T. Kindberg, M. Spasojevic, R. Fleck, A. Sellen
   I Saw This and Thought of You: Some Social Uses of Camera Phones
(submitted for publication, will be awailable as a TR very soon)

I have read and been pondering How and Why People Use Camera Phones. I hope to write down my reflections soon. In the meantime, I have also come across what seems to be a similar research project right at SIMS, led by Nancy Van House: New Photographic Technology and the Social Uses of Images - Van House Dec 204.

Some questions I have so far:

I didn't see a lot in the study about the interaction of camera phones and new online services (some mention). Will they be studying those services?
What's the difference between camera phone use and that of very small digital cameras (which might not have the connectivity but have higher quality images)?
Will the authors be looking at what people do with all the images? For example, do camera phone users scrapbook the images?
Are people reflecting much on what is appropriate to take pictures of and what is not appropriate?
Are the authors intereacting much with the work of Nancy Van House at Berkeley? (http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/%7Evanhouse/photo_project_overview.htm)

Why I care

As I track this research, I have also been writing more personally about my own camera phone use: CameraPhone.