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Context & Macro-Break Tasks

Tokyo is criss-crossed with railway lines so one cultural anomaly is the amount of time people spending waiting at crossings for trains to pass. Unlike other waiting contexts there’s not a huge amout of people watching going on - everyone on one side of the crossing is facing the same direction, and the people on the opposite side of the tracks are too far away to be able to pick up subtle (flirting) behaviours. For people standing alone mobile devices feature heavily in how they occupy their time.

Thought for today - the cultural differences in the causes of waiting. And how these differences affect technology/service adoption.

Writing from Tokyo | February 25, 2007 | Permalink