GeoNotes: Social and Navigational Aspects of Location-Based Information Systems

  • Authors:
  • Fredrik Espinoza;Per Persson;Anna Sandin;Hanna Nyström;Elenor Cacciatore;Markus Bylund

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • UbiComp '01 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Location-based information systems allow the user to accessinformation in relation to the user's position in geographicalspace. This paper outlines navigational and social aspects of suchsystems. It is argued that location-based systems must allow usersto participate as content providers in order to achieve a socialand dynamic information space. Moreover, as these systems allowcommercial and private users to annotate space with information ona mass-scale, information filtering techniques will becomeessential in order to prevent information overload and userdisturbance. We present a number of content-based and socialfiltering techniques to support this. We discuss implications forimplementation and we describe a system (GeoNotes), which takessome of these aspects into account.