世論 What Japan Thinks

japan.internet.com has been a bit barren recently – I don’t know why they’ve decreased the number of surveys they publish – so this survey from goo Research is not one I would normally choose, but needs must. The topic was web cameras and headsets, but the published results were quite uninteresting.

Demographics

Between the 23rd and 26th of August 2010 1,041 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.8% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 21.0% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 15.7% in their fifties, and 12.4% aged sixty or older.

I’ve got just a headset, which I only use for very occasional internet telephone calls. I did try training Windows Vista’s speech to text software using them, but some combination of the headset, the input settings, Microsoft coding and my accent meant that I couldn’t get much more than 50% accuracy, making typing a whole lot faster.

Research results

Q1: Do you have a web camera or headset for your home PC? (Sample size=1,041)

Web camera only	9.6%
Head set only	8.9%
Both web camera and headset (to SQ1)	11.6%
Neither web camera nor headset, don’t know	69.8%

Q1SQ1: How do you use your web camera and headset? (Sample size=121)

Usually use both together (to SQ2)	21.5%
Use both together more (to SQ2)	43.8%
Use separately more	24.8%
Usually use separately	5.8%
Don’t know	4.1%

Q1SQ2: For what purposes do you mainly use your web camera and headset together? (Sample size=79, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Skype, other internet video telephone	66	83.5%
Other video chat	19	24.1%
Language learning	9	11.4%
Other	2	2.5%