NDLI: Usage patterns of FriendZone: mobile location-based community services

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Sharon, Taly Burak, Asaf
Abstract	How do users accept, and use, for a long period of time, location based services (LBS) on their mobile handsets? FriendZone, a suite of mobile Location-based Community Services has been launched. The services included Instant Messaging and Locator (IM&L), Location-based Chat, and Anonymous Instant Messaging (AIM), with supporting Privacy Management.A 21 month usage survey of more than 47,000 users, most of them young adults, followed by user interviews, is reported herein. The results indicate that AIM is the most popular and used service, more than IM&L, with lower use of Chat. The interviews showed that young adults are interested in immediate stimulations and therefore use AIM, which could lead them to face-to-face meetings. In addition, IM&L is limited to one carrier and hence is less attractive. Lastly, young adults using this service are more interested in sharing their location than in their privacy.
Starting Page	93
Ending Page	100
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581139810
DOI	10.1145/1052380.1052394
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2004-10-27
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	3g Mobile communities Location-based services Mixed reality Wap Sms Ubiquitous computing Lbs
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Usage patterns of FriendZone: mobile location-based community services