Monday, July 26, 2004

"picture interviewing"

here's a novel thought, combining instant messaging and mobile phone/ camera phone technology...

Having downloaded the latest version of Agile Messenger (a free multi-channel IM client for Symbian and Microsoft Smartphones and Pocket PC - http://www.agilemobile.com/am.html) for my phone, I realised that I can now do something with our survey software that isn't possible via any other channel: I can run a mrInterview survey through my IM player (see http://im.msurveys.com), and respond to an open ended question by taking a picture and reply with this picture (in combination with any text, if required - what is stored in the response data is a link to the image, and any text entered with the image).

Not sure off the top of my head what type of market research/ survey/ feedback this may be useful for - I guess anywhere where "a picture is worth a thousand words".