Analyzing usage of location based services

  • Authors:
  • Assaf Burak;Taly Sharon

  • Affiliations:
  • Valis LTD., Tel-Aviv, ISRAEL;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

FriendZone, a suit of mobile location-based community services has been launched. FriendZone's social services include Instant Messenger and Locator (IM&L), Location-based Chat, and Anonymous IM, with supporting Privacy Management. We describe the findings of a 16 months usage survey of 40,000 users, most of them young adults.The results indicate that Anonymous IM is the most popular service, more than IM&L, with lower use of Location-based Chat that was introduced last.