{"id":117,"date":"2013-03-03T22:35:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T06:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehyperlinkedlibrary.org\/hyperlib\/henare\/?p=47"},"modified":"2013-03-03T22:35:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T06:35:37","slug":"quick-response-codes-as-technolust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/2013\/03\/03\/quick-response-codes-as-technolust\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Response codes as technolust?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hcm.im\/resume\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48 aligncenter\" alt=\"hcmQRcode\" src=\"http:\/\/thehyperlinkedlibrary.org\/hyperlib\/henare\/files\/2013\/03\/hcmQRcode.png\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think so. On the surface they seem like a great idea: they\u2019re square images which have encoded information which can be easily captured with a smartphone\u2019s camera. The encoded information is usually a URL but can also be an email address, a SMS destination, etc. The user snaps a photo of the quick response (QR) code image with their QR code app and then something happens (usually a web page opens). Sounds simple, right?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out to be not so simple. Many smartphones don\u2019t ship with an app that can read QR codes, so potential users have to chase down a QR code app \u2026 this isn\u2019t difficult, but it\u2019s the most important step and most users don\u2019t realize they have to do this until they encounter a QR code they want to work with, and then it\u2019s too late (so the first QR code interaction is often a failure).<\/p>\n<p>Those who expect to use QR codes usually need \u00a0a smartphone with which to process the code but there are still a significant number of Americans who don\u2019t have the use of a smartphone. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielsen.com\/us\/en\/newswire\/2012\/smartphones-account-for-half-of-all-mobile-phones-dominate-new-phone-purchases-in-the-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Last year Nielsen (the consumer surveying organization) reported that nearly 50% of Americans have a smartphone.<\/a> While they also reported substantial growth among smartphone users a significant number of people don\u2019t yet have the technology with which to view QR codes.<\/p>\n<p>QR codes are not the simplest, most transparent way to present information. A URL or email address can be used by many library users using technology already available in most libraries. It seems counterintuitive to use a technology that may keep users from participating in the library community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think so. On the surface they seem like a great idea: they\u2019re square images which have encoded information which can be easily captured with a smartphone\u2019s camera. The encoded information is usually a URL but can also be an email address, a SMS destination, etc. The user snaps a photo of the quick response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-divide","category-weekly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henare.org\/libblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}