Project "habitèle" is now finished

The project "habitèle" started 26 months ago and is now over. The final report has been delivered to the French National Research Agency ANR. A number of very significant theoretical moves were made due to the survey we conducted in 8 countries among 420 people with the help of social sciences laboratories in each country. Thanks to all and stay tuned for the publication of the report, when validated.

Annexes are of some interest for the ones who would like to dive into the protocol, the database, the method of data extraction  on phones, and so on. They are available following this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b0kud9y7gjyq0lf/AACCgmuk7rD8q73eyHVIS9Tma

 

 

 

Le projet habitèle est désormais terminé et le rapport final fourni à l'ANR. De profonds remaniements théoriques ont été réalisés grâce à cette enquête dans 8 pays auprès de 420 personnes. merci à tous les laboratoires de sciences sociales qui ont contribué à ce projet dans les 7 pays hors de France. Le rapport final sera bientôt disponible en ligne.

Les annexes (méthodologie, population,  protocole, extraction des données des portables, bases de données) sont disponibles sur ce lien drop box

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b0kud9y7gjyq0lf/AACCgmuk7rD8q73eyHVIS9Tma

Papers about habitèle available on the journal URBE

Finally, due to the nice colaboration with our brasilian partners (Rodrigo Firmino and Fabio Duarte, PUCPR) in the ANR project habitele, we manage to deliver a special issue of the journal URBE, in English, including an introduction from Dominique Boullier (habitele: mobile technologies reshaping urban life) and papers about case studies  from many partners. Must read! And soon more news about the project close to its completion.

Mobile equipment to outnumber world population at the end of the year

Last survey from Cisco about uses of mobile phones, equipment will outnumber world population at the end of the year and so on!As usual, predictions about 2017 should not be trusted at all, sorry for delivering this kind of marketing info, but some information is still relevant!
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-520862.pdf

Mobile subscriptions and unique mobile users

All statistics must be controlled and the figures about mobile subscriptions need to be checked out in order to estimate the number of individual users. Our survey has demonstrated this multiequipment trend especially in countries like Nigeria where the commercial conditions for  connections to other operators' subscribers may vary a lot: three mobile phones per subscriber are not unfrequent. This is why the tables in this report can relate the 6.4 billion subscriptions to the 4.5 billion unique users (estimate).
http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats/a#uniquesubscribers

Habitele international conference Paris 30-31 May

On 30-31May at Sciences Po, we organize the international conference about habitele with all the teams that produced the data for the survey. Yes, the survey on the field is over, finally! We've got a huge database and the first dataprocessing is taking place thanks to  the cooperation of François Weber from ENSAI junior entreprise  ( a famous statistics School). People from Korea, India, Nigeria, Tunisia, Brazil, USA, UK and France will meet and exchange their results and experiences, tell us more about their case studies and test the hypotheses of the ANR project habitele.
This conference is sponsored by the "Pole de Compétitivité" Cap Digital.
Here are the pictures of participants at the entrance of the médialab when Bruno Latour came and visited us. We had fun, international friendship, good papers on case studies, and plenty of insights about how to go on with such an amount of data all of us collected. Stay tuned!

How the cell phone encapsulates more and more on line activity

The Pew Internet And American Life Project always delivers well documented surveys and this one should not be missed. The question is what activity and especially online activity could escape being processed through a cell phone? Ok, I agree, we're not using Catia on our phones, these  are professional tools that require large screens and a huge computing power. But all our everyday online activity will be accessible with our cell phones creating this habitat we call habitele.

FB Home: how to inhabit our habitele

 

What if Facebook red our habitele hypothesis and designed "Home" along our insights? Our survey (by the way, it is almost over now in the 7 countries) demonstrates the importance of the customization of phones home pagse. Our survey was also designed for assessing the role of the phonebooks and of contacts on personal activity (and not for tracking applications use, because we are more connected through social navigation than anything else). These 2 features are exactly the ones implemented on Facebook Home. The name itself (Home) could be a good start for understanding how we inhabit our phones.  This is why habitele framework leads the way for new innovations and not only for academic purposes. But there are many other findings that Facebook did not considered!! Stay tune! Our international conference in Paris in May will give more fuel to these insights!