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RJ Institute Opens New Application Development Lab
The newly-remodeled space in RJI’s Futures Lab is equipped with Windows-based laptops, tablets, hybrids and smartphones. The lab also includes Xbox 360 gaming systems with Kinect for Xbox 360-enabled motion, gaming and videoconferencing capabilities that will allow for new forms of interaction in business, communications and health care experiments. In addition to hardware, software and … Continue reading
2012 RJI Mobile Media News: Who uses mobile media devices?
Results of all previous RJI tablet surveys can be found on the RJI website at: http://www.rjionline.org/news/rji-dpa-tablet-research-project. For more information, contact Roger Fidler at fidlerr@rjionline.org. According to Reynolds Journalism Institute findings, two-thirds of U.S. adults used at least one mobile media device in their daily lives during the first quarter of 2012. Smartphones and large media tablets … Continue reading
Poynter ‘EyeTrack: Tablet’ research shows horizontal swiping instinct for photo galleries
by Sara Dickenson Quinn Poynter’s “EyeTrack: Tablet” project, the latest in our long tradition of research to understand how readers view news, can now announce some early results: iPad users have an overwhelming instinct to swipe horizontally through a full screen photo gallery, regardless of portrait or landscape orientation. Our Poynter research team thought … Continue reading
Newspaper readers like local content, study reminds
Some competing media are heralding the end of newspapers, but, as a famous print journalist, Mark Twain, once mused, “News of my demise is greatly exaggerated.” A University of Missouri study debunks most of the negative talk about newspapers and shows they remain prime information sources. That is according to a study by the Reynolds … Continue reading
iPad research by the Reynolds Journalism Institute 2010
iPad news apps may diminish newspaper print subscriptions in 2011 The Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) recently completed the first phase of a multi-year research project to understand how Apple iPad users consume news content. This initial phase was a cross-sectional survey with 20 questions conducted online from the beginning of September through the end of … Continue reading
Design Facts
Poynter Institute is testing reader so publishers could understand them better. Link:http://eyetrack.poynter.org/ Please note the following, you’ll benefit from it: The reader enters the page through the largest image on a page – mostly photos. After this, most readers notice headlines. Caption under the picture is in third place where readers eye stops. These three … Continue reading
