A sociotechnical investigation of ubiquitous computing as a research enterprise and as a
lived reality. Ubiquitous computing (or ubicomp) is the label for a" third wave" of computing …

As a growing number of social media platforms now include location information from their
users, researchers are confronted with new online representations of individuals, social …

This study seeks to clarify the nature of control in the context of information privacy to
generate insights into the effects of different privacy assurance approaches on context …

Little research exists on one of the most common, oldest, and most utilized forms of online
social geographic information: the'location'field found in most virtual community user …

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 …

For many, an interest in Human-Computer Interaction is equivalent to an interest in usability.
However, using computers is only one way of relating to them, and only one topic from which …

Personalization technologies offer powerful tools for enhancing the user experience in a
wide variety of systems, but at the same time raise new privacy concerns. For example …

Location-sharing services have a long history in research, but have only recently become
available for consumers. Most popular commercial location-sharing services differ from …

In this paper, we describe research into use of multifunctional mobile phones by working
adults and posit the device as a plausible realization of ubiquitous computing. We …

Due to the ability of cell phone providers to use cell phone towers to pinpoint users'
locations, federal E911 requirements, the increasing popularity of GPS-capabilities in …