(9/16/09) SAMMIE Experimentation

For my experiment in relation to this week's reading assignment, I decided to take particular note of how many times I interacted with an object.  I chose my phone.  For the first day, Monday (9/14), I decided to count the number of times I checked my phone/interacted with it in some other way.  To make sure I remembered to keep track, the background of my phone was changed to a picture of text stating "KEEP TRACK."

I interacted with my phone 57 times in one day... and I most likely forgot a few.

On Tuesday (9/15), I purposefully left my phone in my room.  Throughout the day, I would reach into my pocket to find nothing.  On several occasions I panicked before realizing I was doing the experiment--my phone safely tucked away in a drawer in my room.  It's hard to describe the over all "unease" I felt by not having a phone.  What if something's wrong?  How will I contact someone?  I think it would be very interesting to see information on the correlations between cellphones and stress levels.