Lab+Three

**1.** **Describe Jan Chipchase’s prior job (he now works at frog design) in relation to his work at Nokia. What are the two names he is given in the article? (3 paragraphs)**
 * Tutorial #3 Wiki Question**

For the last seven years Jan Chipchase worked for the cellphone company NOKIA. During his time there his job was to research the behaviors of humans. He can sometimes be referred to as a “user anthropologist”. His job was to tap into the human world and discover the behaviors of individuals within a specific region or country.

Chipchase would gather as much information as possible and would bring his findings back to the NOKIA Company. This information would then be passed along to the designers, technologist and marketing people who would not be able to relate to the behaviors of individuals outside the corporate buildings.

Chipchase would go around taking pictures and documenting people’s daily activities, which could remotely be used to help better NOKIA. Chipchase, also describes how cellphones are becoming a piece of identity for individuals. I strongly agree with this in the sense that now a days people will ask for cellphone numbers as appose to their home numbers. The cell phone is becoming the primary way of communication, since it is a convenient device that can be carried anywhere and complete many different types of actions. This idea was also demonstrated in Jan Chipchase’s video presentation.

**2.** **“It’s really quite striking”, Hammond says. “What people are voting for with their pocketbooks, as soon as they have more money even before their basic needs are met, is telecommunications.” (World Resources Institute) In the spirit of this quote, describe four instances of how owning a cell phone enables users to better their lives. (4 paragraphs/ one for each instance)**


 * Owning a cellphone enables users to better their lives by:**


 * Fixed Identity=**Cellphones help to give individuals a fixed identity. This was clear demonstrated in the presentation given by Jan Chipchase. He showed how individuals would use their cellphone numbers as their house numbers as well as used their cell phones to transfer money from one to another. This betters their lives by making it easy to get into contact with specific individuals without having to go through multiples of parties.


 * Proximate Literacy=**Having a cell phone especially in the third world countries helps to better the literacy skills amongst individuals. This is because most cellular devices have icons with the corresponding word. Raising the literacy in the specific area can also increase the likeliness of micro financing which helps to make peoples lives better by creating income. If people can read or have some type of knowledge of the meaning of words, people in these third world countries would also live healthier example being the Nestle baby formula.


 * Constant Transfer of Information=**The cellphone can be used as a way of receiving and sending out information. This can better individual’s lives by making it easy for them to receive information from family members, or send information to them. As well individuals would receive information about issues surrounding them. This helps to keep them informed and prepare them in case of an emergency. Example being if there is unsafe water in one of the water wells the word could be spread quickly.


 * Convince=**Having a cellphone is extremely convenient. This is because now days due to the convergence of the cellphone the device can carry out many other different actions rather then just a simple phone call. Cellphones today can do web surfing, text messaging, and picture upload. All these tasks can be done easily and remotely anywhere, therefore making individuals lives better by being able to most work from their phone.