Control, Deception, and Communication: Evaluating the Deployment of a Location-Enhanced Messaging Service Export

@incollection{citeulike:1362351, abstract = {We report on a two-week deployment of a peer-to-peer, mobile, location-enhanced messaging service. This study is specifically aimed at investigating the need for and effectiveness of automatic location disclosure mechanisms, the emerging strategies to achieve plausible deniability, and at understanding how place and activity are used to communicate plans, intentions and provide awareness. We outline the research that motivated this study, briefly describe the application we designed, and provide details of the evaluation process. The results show a lack of value of automatic messaging functions, confirm the need for supporting plausible deniability in communications, and highlight the prominent use of activity instead of place to indicate one's location. Finally, we offer suggestions for the development of social mobile applications.}, author = {Iachello, Giovanni and Smith, Ian and Consolvo, Sunny and Abowd, Gregory D. and Hughes, Jeff and Howard, James and Potter, Fred and Scott, James and Sohn, Timothy and Hightower, Jeffrey and Lamarca, Anthony}, citeulike-article-id = {1362351}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11551201_13}, doi = {10.1007/11551201_13}, journal = {UbiComp 2005: Ubiquitous Computing}, keywords = {availability, deception, location, mobile, place, privacy}, pages = {213--231}, posted-at = {2007-06-04 11:52:22}, priority = {0}, title = {Control, Deception, and Communication: Evaluating the Deployment of a Location-Enhanced Messaging Service}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11551201_13}, year = {2005} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1362351 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1362351 N2 - We report on a two-week deployment of a peer-to-peer, mobile, location-enhanced messaging service. This study is specifically aimed at investigating the need for and effectiveness of automatic location disclosure mechanisms, the emerging strategies to achieve plausible deniability, and at understanding how place and activity are used to communicate plans, intentions and provide awareness. We outline the research that motivated this study, briefly describe the application we designed, and provide details of the evaluation process. The results show a lack of value of automatic messaging functions, confirm the need for supporting plausible deniability in communications, and highlight the prominent use of activity instead of place to indicate one’s location. Finally, we offer suggestions for the development of social mobile applications. JF - UbiComp 2005: Ubiquitous Computing EP - 231 TI - Control, Deception, and Communication: Evaluating the Deployment of a Location-Enhanced Messaging Service SP - 213 KW - availability KW - deception KW - location KW - mobile KW - place KW - privacy AU - Iachello, Giovanni AU - Smith, Ian AU - Consolvo, Sunny AU - Abowd, Gregory AU - Hughes, Jeff AU - Howard, James AU - Potter, Fred AU - Scott, James AU - Sohn, Timothy AU - Hightower, Jeffrey AU - Lamarca, Anthony PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11551201_13 ER -