Voice Call vs. SMSVoice Call vs. SMSUser Preferences User Preferences

Presented by:

Group Leader: Uzair-ul-Zafar (5936)

Group Members: Asif Iqbal (5995)

Shahzad Saleem (6508), Adeel Amin (5916), Muhammad Waseem (5918).

IntroductionIntroduction

Since last decade the cellular phones Since last decade the cellular phones are become very common is our are become very common is our society.society.

Cellular phone are now being Cellular phone are now being indispensible for the urban areas indispensible for the urban areas students.students.

In this very uncertain situation of our In this very uncertain situation of our country the device is used for be in country the device is used for be in 24 hours contact with the close ones. 24 hours contact with the close ones.

IntroductionIntroduction

For the many reasons the students For the many reasons the students are using voice calls and SMSare using voice calls and SMS

Specially in class students used to Specially in class students used to disobey the code of conduct and disobey the code of conduct and start text messaging.start text messaging.

Lets see after the research what out Lets see after the research what out comes we got from the MBR class comes we got from the MBR class studentsstudents

QUESTIONNAIRE

Questionnaire

Resu

lts

Cell Phone User

28

0

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

a.) Yes

b.) No

23 21

2 0 00

10

20

30

a.) voicecalls

b.) SMS c.) Internetbrowsing

d.) Games e.) AnyOther

Purpose of using Cell Phone

Cell Phone Connection

Mobilink □13%

Ufone □43%Telenor □

13%

Zong □13%

Warid □18%

11

14

0 12

0

5

10

15

a.) voice call b.) SMS c.) MMS d.) E-Mail e.) Any Other

Favorite Mode of Communication

□ SMS bundle61%

□ hourly call pakages

22%

□ Friend and family

14%

□ Foreign call

pakages3%

GSM Connections used by the class

0

5

10

15

20

Daily Usage

Series1 20 8 0 0

a.) SMSb.) voice

callc.) MMS d.) E-Mail

Preference during class room & Office Meeting

86%

14%

a.) SMS

b.) voice call

Preference at Public Places

64%

36%a.) SMS

b.) voice call

Numbers Of Call / SMS Send & received

a.) SMS322881%

b.) voice call74619%

4

13

4

1

6

Stronly Disagree

Disagree

Neither Agreed noDisagreed

Agreed

Stronly agreed

Do students prefer Voice call over SMS (Level of Agreement)

HYPOTHESIS

Statement:

80% of the MBR class students prefer voice call over SMS

H0 = v > s

H1 = v < s

Population of class is around 65 students and sample is taken from 28th students

S. No. X1 X2 Total_X

_X - X

_(X - X)2

1 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 2 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 3 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 4 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 5 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 6 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 7 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 8 2 - 2 0.46428571 1.54 2.358418367 9 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 10 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 11 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 12 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 13 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 14 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 15 2 - 2 0.46428571 1.54 2.358418367 16 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 17 2 - 2 0.46428571 1.54 2.358418367 18 2 - 2 0.46428571 1.54 2.358418367 19 2 - 2 0.46428571 1.54 2.358418367 20 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 21 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 22 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 23 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 24 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 25 2 - 2 0.46428571 1.54 2.358418367 26 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 27 - - - 0.46428571 - 0.46 0.215561224 28 - 1 1 0.46428571 0.54 0.286989796

Total 13   0.00 18.96428571

_X = ∑X

    N

     

  = 13

    28

     

_X = 0.46428571

 

√

 

= 18.96429

  28

   

= √ 0.677296

   

=   0.82298

           t = 0.46428571 - 0.8  

  0.8229799 / √28  

   

  = -0.33571  

  0.155529  

     t =   -2.15854            

t distribution

One Tail test

This table was calculated by APL programs written by William Knight.   The format of the table is adapted from a table constructed by Drake Bradley, Department of Psychology, Bates College,

Lewiston-Ashburn, Mine, U.S.A.

Ho : Rejected

H1 : Accepted

Conclusion :

As per Questionnaire survey and hypotheses result it can be said that 80% of MBR class Students do not prefer Voice Call over SMS but it has been seen that the preference is given to SMS.

The preference of SMS over voice calls has been seen evaluated from the questionnaire filed by bellow 30 age students and the 50% of over 30 age students had given preference to voice calls.