User Analysis
The sharing of location data is important to anyone with a GPS in their phone. This is a broad population. We performed contextual inquiry to learn more about how people use existing systems, and what features they might like to see in a location-sharing app. In particular, we inquired about social and commercial uses of location-data sharing. We interviewed people who represented
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- Would be interested to know the available offers from stores such that he can make the most out of his location information.
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Task Analysis
- Initiate location sharing relationship
- Define people to share with
- Define type of aggregate/derivative data to share
- View notifications about friends’ locations
- Opt-in to offers from companies/organizations/retailers
- View/edit existing relationships
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