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Student Presentation

Users’ Perceptions and Shared Meanings of the Music Application iBone in an Educational Context
Elton Masaki, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA, masaki@hawaii.edu Claire Borengasser, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA, borengas@hawaii.edu Joshua Winter, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA, jwwinter@hawaii.edu Hery Yanto The, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA, hery@hawaii.edu

Music applications are reviewed and shared amongst music lovers over mobile devices like the iPhone, iTouch, and the iPad. This paper reviews the popular music application, iBone. The purpose of this phenomenological study is to 1) analyze user perceptions of the iBone app for iPhone, iTouch, and iPad, and 2) identify shared themes using a whole case sampling method of iTune’s online user reviews garnered on November 16, 2010 (63 total reviews).

All Audiences Perspectives and personal experiences with emerging learning technologies