TY - GEN
T1 - I'm the mayor of my house
T2 - Examining why people use foursquare - A social-driven location sharing application
AU - Lindqvist, Janne
AU - Cranshaw, Justin
AU - Wiese, Jason
AU - Hong, Jason
AU - Zimmerman, John
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - There have been many location sharing systems developed over the past two decades, and only recently have they started to be adopted by consumers. In this paper, we present the results of three studies focusing on the foursquare check-in system. We conducted interviews and two surveys to understand, both qualitatively and quantitatively, how and why people use location sharing applications, as well as how they manage their privacy. We also document surprising uses of foursquare, and discuss implications for design of mobile social services.
AB - There have been many location sharing systems developed over the past two decades, and only recently have they started to be adopted by consumers. In this paper, we present the results of three studies focusing on the foursquare check-in system. We conducted interviews and two surveys to understand, both qualitatively and quantitatively, how and why people use location sharing applications, as well as how they manage their privacy. We also document surprising uses of foursquare, and discuss implications for design of mobile social services.
KW - Check-in
KW - Foursquare
KW - Location based service
KW - Mobile computing
KW - Privacy
KW - Social computing
KW - Uses and gratifications
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U2 - 10.1145/1978942.1979295
DO - 10.1145/1978942.1979295
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79958162705
SN - 9781450302289
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2409
EP - 2418
BT - CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
ER -