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I'm the mayor of my house: examining why people use foursquare - a social-driven location sharing application

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Janne Lindqvist,

Justin Cranshaw,

John ZimmermanAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2409 - 2418

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979295

Published: 07 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

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.

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I'm the mayor of my house: examining why people use foursquare - a social-driven location sharing application
1. Human-centered computing
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DOI:10.1145/1978942

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