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Location discourse involves the active or passive sharing of location information between individuals. Related applications include mobile friend locators, and location-dependent messaging. Privacy issues pertaining to location disclosure have been considered in research and relevant design guidelines are emerging, however what location information a user actually “needs to know” has received little systematic analysis to date. In this paper we present results from a questionnaire study and a diary study considering location information need. We provide a classification of location discourse and the factors which impact location need, showing that seemingly small changes in a scenario can yield drastically different location information needs. Finally, we summarize trends that are of interest to designers of location discourse applications.
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Reilly, D., Dearman, D., Ha, V., Smith, I., Inkpen, K. (2006). “Need to Know”: Examining Information Need in Location Discourse. In: Fishkin, K.P., Schiele, B., Nixon, P., Quigley, A. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Pervasive 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3968. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11748625_3
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