A case for space: physical and virtual location requirements in the CouchSurfing social network
Proceedings of the 2009 International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks
Locaccino: a privacy-centric location sharing application
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing - Adjunct
Fine-grained preference-aware location search leveraging crowdsourced digital footprints from LBSNs
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
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Comprehensive yet personalized information for a location is usually desired by mobile users in situ. Traditional navigation systems provide complete static information, such as address, contact, even photos and reviews for a certain place. However, such information does not reflect the real time situation (e.g. popularity/crowdness). Location-based social networks provide opportunity to build social dynamics between the place and potential visitors. In this work, we propose a design by leveraging public online information with users' social network resources to provide real time exploration in novel environments. A mobile application is implemented using Wikipedia, Panoramio, and Foursquare data to provide complete, updated, and trustworthy information. Design highlights and implementation are reported.