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LocaShare primarily focuses on giving users the ability to (i) select the type and amount of location information that they would like to share with others (for social or commercial purposes) and (ii) visualize the amount of information they have shared. The sharing of location data is important to anyone with a GPS in their phone. This is a broad population.
After doing some research, we found that we can classify users based on their expertise in using software systems (to clear/update cookies in their browser, for example) and privacy concerns. Further categorization can be made depending on the type of data that users are interested in sharing (either for social or business purpose). With these classifications, we can divide users based on age in the following manner:
- teen-25: less aware, amount actually shared (greatest in social network), least (commercial data), as danah boyd puts it “they lack the agency to assert social norms and expect that others will respect them”. expertise (middle)
- Summary: less privacy concerns, medium expertise, most amount of social data, least amount of commercial/business data,
- 25-55: more likely to share data with businesses, more proactive in refusing to share data, most expertise (in actively deleting cookies etc), more likely to have personal negative experiences
- Summary: medium privacy concerns, most expertise, medium amount of social data, most amount of commercial/business data,
Wiki Markup <span style="color: #000000">55+:</span> most conservative, have greatest privacy concerns, least amount of technical expertise, least likely to share data. Interestingly, \[1\] describes how none of their study participants expressed a need to create new acquaintances on the Web.- Summary: most privacy concerns, least expertise, least amount of social data, medium amount of commercial/business data,
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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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