101 Uses For Quick Response (QR) Codes: Creating Audience Engagement With The Next Killer US App. June 12, 2010 • Atlanta, GA USA – 2010 is the year of quick response (QR) code in the United States.
By December 31, 2010, a major broadcast or cable TV network and one or more national brands – or Facebook – will do for QR codes in the U.S. what American Idol did for mobile texting. If you work at a major broadcast or cable network or major U.S. consumer brand and are first (in a big, useful, powerful way), you’ll also benefit from a massive amount of traditional consumer and trade media coverage; social media and word-of-mouth buzz. Wedding Bride Meets Quick Response (QR) Scan Code • Scan the code to see video shout-outs for Fashion & Glamour Photographer Dan Smigrod • Text SCAN to 43588 for a free scanner app This means you need to get started – today! QR codes just took-over Times Square, reports Mashable (6/11/10). Here is my list of 101 actual or potential uses for quick scan codes for smart phones (with cameras): QR Codes on the Big Screen.
2 Oct I’ve been using QR codes in my classroom for scavenger hunts and as a tool for research.
If you haven’t viewed my presentation on making your own QR codes and using them in the classroom, check it out here. If I want all of my students to visit one website (especially one with a combination of characters that might be hard to type in) I’ll project the QR code onto my board and have all students scan it straight from their seats. This eliminates the printing, copying and distributing of papers and makes for a quick, easy scan for all students. Emart Sunny Sale Campaign: 3D QR Code Helped To Boost Daily Sales. (88) QR Codes: What are the most effective and creative uses of a QR code. Displaying QR Codes on an LED Screen. More and more companies are using LED screens in order to showcase their interactive advertising campaigns.
QR codes are often used on these LED display ads, however, its important to consider the limitations of QR code scanability on LED displays. One common error that affects QR code scanability are position detection patterns. The position detection patterns are located in three of the four corners of a QR code, allowing omni-directional, high-speed scanning. However, if the refresh rate of the LED screen is low, the barcode scanner, especially on a smartphone, could capture the picture at an incomplete state, causing the code to be unreadable. Five Reasons I Love Using QR Codes in My Classroom. There are so many tools that educators can use to get students interested and engaged in their work.
Like most teachers today, I integrate technology into my instruction everyday. I'm lucky to work in a school with one-to-one technology and use iPads with my students throughout every school day. Printing QR Codes. Printing QR Codes People ask us every day about printing for QR Codes and what size is advisable.
We are going to explain it in very simple terms because mistakes are made sometimes and we hope this article will help you overcome this. To print a QR code you must have the QR Code in the correct format. Usually for print Vector images are advised as they can be scaled to any size. Use a generator that provides images in vector format; Azonmobile's can produce PDF, SVG and EPS Vector formats. Printing small Raster Codes. QR Code Best Practices in Print. QR barcode scans grew 1200% from July to December 2010. comScore released its findings that, in June 2011, 14 million Americans scanned QR codes on their mobile phones.
These numbers show the importance of QR codes and a need to get it right now rather than later. Although the list of QR code guidelines seems listed below seems long, it’s not really that hard of a task to do it right. The first step is knowledge and understanding of what to do and what not to do. Materials. Android Ideos and QR-Codes, practical limitations - The Nyaruka Blog. We're a huge fan of the Huawie Ideos phones.
They are ridiculously cheap, $100 unlocked, and can be bought over the counter at Safaricom in Kenya or about $120 from NewEgg in the states. That is a crazy pricepoint, totally blowing away any other Android phone and really making J2ME handsets mostly irrelevant as contenders for the kind of ICT4D projects Nyaruka undertakes. Recently we've been working with a client and have been considering using these as a way of managing and tracking inventory. After all, the cheapest barcode scanners are around the same price, and you don't get a built in touch screen, GSM connectivity, GPS and the ability to build the entire application on the device. That makes the Ideos mighty tempting indeed. QR Codes Scanning Distance. The invisible bubble of space that constitutes each person territory plays a major role in our social life. In his book “The Hidden Dimension” Edward T. Hall elaborates on the distance factor role in animal social life and humans as well.
It appears that people use the same distance rules when interacting with objects as well and QR codes are not an exception. What is the ideal print size of a QR Code? - Unitag. QR Code Minimum Size » QRStuff.com. Posted: November 23rd, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: General | No Comments » In my previous post, What Size Should A Printed QR Code Be, I mentioned that it wasn’t the size of the QR code image that determined the minimum size at which a QR code could be scanned, it was actually the size of the modules (the little black squares) that make up the QR code image.
If the size of the modules fall below the resolution limit of the camera then the QR code won’t be able to be read by the device. A fundamental part of the way QR codes work is that the more data you put into them, the more rows and columns of modules will be introduced into the QR code to compensate for the increased data load. Hence, for a QR code image of a certain size (width), the more data it contains, the more rows and columns of modules it has and, logically, the smaller each of the modules then become as a result. Not All QR Code Scanning Apps Are Created Equal » QRStuff.com. Posted: May 1st, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: General | No Comments » The reason this post came about was that a few days ago Roger Smolski over at 2D Code posted about Color Card Administrator (CCA) setting up a QR Code Test Suite to determine the accuracy and sophistication of QR code scanning apps.
The test suite presents an array of QR codes containing a variety of data types and is intended to set a benchmark standard of readability and interpretation that all scanning apps should aspire to. Testing begins on 01 May 2011 and is open to all QR code scanning app developers. Apps that pass the test will be given an official CCA seal of quality to indicate that it’s able to properly deal with the various established standards that are currently being used in QR codes. After reading the article, I thought to myself “about time!” MEMO TO (SOME) APP DEVELOPERS: Just thought I’d drop you a few suggestions on how to give your users a better experience when using your scanning app:
QR Code Business Cards - Picking a QR Reader. Which App Opens Up Your Business Card's QR Code the Easiest?
After you have created and printed a QR Code on your business card, the person you hand your card to will need a QR reader app to actually use the QR code - along with a smartphone that has a decent camera. Color Card Administrator and PrintBusinessCards.com currently recommends the following QR Code Readers. We will be updating this frequently as the readers improve, and as we are able to better test the available QR Reader apps that are available.
Nokia Maemo/Meego. QR Code Business Cards - Picking a QR Reader. QR Code Business Cards - Picking a QR Reader. QR Code Quality Standards Test. Displayed below are several QR test codes. These test codes will help you verify that your QR code scanner is able to properly interpret the data after it has been scanned in order to provide the end user with the desired experience or information using your QR reader. Not all tests are passable on every QR code scanning platform, so a perfect score should not be expected. Each platform has certain limitations and each test code attempts to deliberately showcase flaws so you can deal with them directly. This test should be helpful for application developers with their own quality assurance testing as they develop their QR reader application and release new updates.
It will also assist critics (those writing app reviews or testing apps for approval in various online stores) by giving them a reliable evaluation tool for testing QR reader quality and reliability. Dynamic QR Codes » QRStuff.com. Posted: August 12th, 2012 | Author: admin | Filed under: General | 5 Comments » A basic fundamental of QR codes is that the pattern of modules in the QR code image is a direct graphical representation of the data it contains. That’s just the way QR codes work and is the essence of the algorithm that creates the QR code image. This has one big downside – changing the data encoded into the QR code has the consequential result of also changing the QR code image which, at first glance, presents a significant problem if the website URL that the QR code links to needs to be changed. How to update the information in a QR code that’s already been published? We grappled with this dilemma in mid-2008 and figured out that the simplest way to address this problem was to have a short URL actually in the QR code and then provide our users with the ability to change where the short URL then redirected to.
Q1 2012: QR Code Trends » QRStuff.com. Posted: April 8th, 2012 | Author: admin | Filed under: General | No Comments » The following data is based on the QR codes created by our website users during January, February and March 2012. Key Points Overall global QR Code activity is up 381% on Q1 2011 and up 16% on Q4 2011.The Top 5 countries (Untied States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany) have remained the same however their collective share of global QR code activitiy has decreased marginally since Q4 2011.While the relative proportion of global QR code activitiy for the USA decreased from 49.0% in Q4 2011 to 48.1% in Q1 2012, QR code activity in absolute terms increased by 14% in the USA over the same period.Email and SMS QR codes have increased in popularity at the expense of QR codes containing a website URL.
QR Codes: What Smartphones Are Being Used For Scanning? » QRStuff.com. Posted: August 29th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: General | No Comments » The dominance of iPhones over Androids as the most popular QR code scanning device has continued to increase over the past 6 months based on figures from our database of recorded scan events. While the Android was the preferred choice prior to February this year, their share has been decreasing steadily since August last year to the point where last month there were 1.9 scans on an iPhone for every one on an Android. Both Blackberry and Windows devices are struggling along with just over 10% and well under 5% respectively. Considering the number of Android devices out there compared to iPhones, I’ll leave it up to the marketing guys to explain why the numbers stack up the way they do. Just a quick note – unlike may other QR code generation platforms, I don’t force my users to use our URL shortener (a short URL redirection is the standard method for collecting analytics).
QR Codes: What Smartphones Are Being Used For Scanning? » QRStuff.com. What Size Should A Printed QR Code Be? » QRStuff.com. Posted: January 18th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: General | No Comments » What Size Should A Printed QR Code Be? » QRStuff.com. DENSO WAVE. QRdeCODE QR Code reading application for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS,iPhone4*3 Available from iTunes App Store*3 Sales price: US$1.99. US Ahead of Western Europe in QR Code Usage. A recent study of QR code usage among consumers in the US, UK, Germany and France found that Americans were the most likely to have used the technology.
According to the study of 2,000 Americans and 1,000 Europeans undertaken by Pitney Bowes, US consumers were more likely to report having scanned QR codes across every medium by which the codes were delivered. For QR codes printed in magazines, nearly two out of five Americans between 18 to 24 years old and 36% of Americans between 25 to 34 years old reported having scanned one. In Germany, where usage was next highest, 27% of 18- to 24-year-olds and 23% of 25- to 34-year-olds had tried scanning barcodes in magazines. On average, young adults across every country were most likely to have tried scanning a magazine, at 27%.
These consumers tended to be more familiar with scanning barcodes located on printed materials such as mail, posters or packaging—21% had tried each. QR Code. 2D bar codes are on buses, in newspapers and magazines, storefronts, product packaging, store shelves, bus stops, mailings from political candidates, and subways. Retail stores like Best Buy, Home Depot and Lowe’s have corporate programs for 2D codes.