世論 What Japan Thinks

iBridge Research Plus recently conducted a survey into video chat, although the portion that japan.internet.com chose to report on was just on chat in general.

Demographics

On the 15th of February 2010 300 members of the iBridge monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.7% of the sample were female, 11.7% in their twenties, 39.7% in their thirties, 33.7% in their forties, 12.7% in their fifties, and 2.3% in their sixties.

I don’t do chat at all, although I have used Skype as a telephone.

Oegaki chat was a new one to me – this is chat through a handwriting interface. I found an interesting article describing this phenomenon that gives a good background on what exactly it is.

Research results

Q1: Which of the following technical terms do you know about? (Sample size=300, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Internet telephone (to SQ1)	229	76.3%
Voice chat (to SQ1)	115	38.3%
Video chat (to SQ1)	101	33.7%
IMS (Instant messaging service) (to SQ1)	84	28.0%
None of the above	61	20.3%

Q1SQ: Which of the following chat services have you used? (Sample size=239, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Internet telephone (to SQ2)	52	21.8%
IMS (Instant messaging service) (to SQ2)	34	14.2%
Voice chat (to SQ2)	33	13.8%
Video chat (to SQ2)	19	7.9%
Oegaki chat (to SQ2)	17	7.1%
Other (to SQ2)	6	2.5%
None of the above	143	59.8%

Q1SQ2: Which of the following services have you used? (Sample size=96, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
MSN Instant Messenger text chat	39	40.6%
Yahoo! Messenger text chat	36	37.5%
Skype voice, video chat	35	36.5%
Skype text chat	29	30.2%
MSN Instant Messenger voice, video chat	21	21.9%
Yahoo! Messenger voice, video chat	16	16.7%
Google (Gmail, iGoogle, orkut) text chat	5	5.2%
Google (Gmail, iGoogle, orkut) voice, video chat	3	3.1%
Gizmo text chat	1	1.0%
Gizmo voice, video chat	0	0.0%
Other text chat	15	15.6%
Other voice, video chat	11	11.5%