Understanding and Using Context
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Location disclosure to social relations: why, when, & what people want to share
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Communications of the ACM - Urban sensing: out of the woods
From awareness to repartee: sharing location within social groups
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Location and activity sharing in everyday mobile communication
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Fear and danger in nocturnal urban environments
Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
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The gathering of people in everyday life is intertwined with travelling to negotiated locations. As a result, mobile phones are often used to rearrange meetings when one or more participants are late or cannot make it on time. Our research is based on the hypothesis that the provision of location data can enhance the experience of people who are meeting each other in different locations. This paper presents work-in-progress on a novel approach to share one's location data in real-time which is visualised on a web-based map in a privacy conscious way. Disposable Maps allows users to select contacts from their phone's address book who then receive up-to-date location data. The utilisation of peer-to-peer notifications and the application of unique URLs for location storage and presentation enable location sharing whilst ensuring users' location privacy. In contrast to other location sharing services like Google Latitude, Disposable Maps enables ad hoc location sharing to actively selected location receivers for a fixed period of time in a specific given situation. We present first insights from an initial application user test and show future work on the approach of disposable information allocation.