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TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of shared context in supporting cooperation between city visitors
AU - Cheverst, Keith
AU - Smith, Gareth
AU - Mitchell, Keith
AU - Friday, Adrian
AU - Davies, Nigel
PY - 2001/7/25
Y1 - 2001/7/25
N2 - The sharing of contextual information between individuals is a notion that often sparks emotional debate. It is interesting to note that the majority of existing work on sharing contextual information, especially location, has focused on the privacy issues raised in the work domain. This paper describes our initial investigation into sharing context in the leisure domain. More specifically we investigate how location context may be usefully shared between city visitors. For example, visitors may benefit by (i) knowing the whereabouts of family members, or (ii) determining the popularity of attractions based on the number of visits. Additionally the sharing of location might also encourage communication between visitors that are not exploring the city as part of a group. For example, noticing that a fellow GUIDE user is located at the city castle would be helpful if I could then contact the visitor to request his or her opinion of the castle.
AB - The sharing of contextual information between individuals is a notion that often sparks emotional debate. It is interesting to note that the majority of existing work on sharing contextual information, especially location, has focused on the privacy issues raised in the work domain. This paper describes our initial investigation into sharing context in the leisure domain. More specifically we investigate how location context may be usefully shared between city visitors. For example, visitors may benefit by (i) knowing the whereabouts of family members, or (ii) determining the popularity of attractions based on the number of visits. Additionally the sharing of location might also encourage communication between visitors that are not exploring the city as part of a group. For example, noticing that a fellow GUIDE user is located at the city castle would be helpful if I could then contact the visitor to request his or her opinion of the castle.
KW - Social awareness
KW - Mobility
KW - Context-awareness
KW - Context-sharing
KW - Wireless
KW - Social navigation cs_eprint_id
KW - 426 cs_uid
KW - 1
U2 - 10.1016/S0097-8493(01)00083-8
DO - 10.1016/S0097-8493(01)00083-8
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 555
EP - 562
JO - Computers and Graphics
JF - Computers and Graphics
SN - 0097-8493
IS - 4
ER -