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ReGroup: using location sharing to support distributed information gathering

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Many shared group activities, such as determining the range of different foods offered at a market, require that group members know which parts of the market will be covered by which people. In this paper we report findings from evaluating ReGroup, a mobile distributed information system that enables group members to "see" the current and immediate past routes of other group members within a defined area. ReGroup collects and shares GPS location data on a number of participating mobile phones. Past routes are visualised as coloured lines on a map of the surrounding area. An initial evaluation of the system at a busy marketplace suggests that there is a great deal of potential usefulness in sharing previous locations amongst members of a group.

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  • (2016)“It's useless for that”: Finding, frustration, and fun with mobile technology in outdoor marketsProceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology10.1002/pra2.2015.14505201005652:1(1-9)Online publication date: 24-Feb-2016
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    OZCHI '10: Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
    November 2010
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    ISBN:9781450305020
    DOI:10.1145/1952222
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    1. collaboration
    2. information sharing
    3. location awareness
    4. mobility
    5. navigation
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    • (2016)“It's useless for that”: Finding, frustration, and fun with mobile technology in outdoor marketsProceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology10.1002/pra2.2015.14505201005652:1(1-9)Online publication date: 24-Feb-2016
    • (2015)"It's useless for that"Proceedings of the 78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting: Information Science with Impact: Research in and for the Community10.5555/2857070.2857126(1-9)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2015

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