Proximity sensor: privacy-aware location sharing

  • Authors:
  • Heiko Müller;Jutta Fortmann;Janko Timmermann;Wilko Heuten;Susanne Boll

  • Affiliations:
  • OFFIS Institute for Information Technology, Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany;University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany;OFFIS Institute for Information Technology, Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany;OFFIS Institute for Information Technology, Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany;University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper we report on a participatory design study with young girls. Our goal was to create a mobile phone app to display the spatial proximity of friends in an abstract and privacy-aware manner. A group of 16 girls worked along the user-centred design process to create initial paper-based designs of an app that respects one's friends privacy while displaying their proximity to allow for spontaneous meetings or re-grouping after separation. Our participants created very promising results which we intend to implement and evaluate further against a broader audience.