TY - GEN
T1 - Relative location oriented mobile LBS
AU - Xiao, Ruowei
AU - Wu, Zhanwei
AU - Sugiura, Kazunori
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Mobile location-based services (LBS) usually define locations in an absolute way, mainly coordinates. However, this absolute presentation of location rarely appears in the context of daily life. Instead, people tend to use relative location, defined on the basis of a location with relation to other locations. Research in cognitive geography also imply that relative location is closer to the human cognitive model. We suggest that this discrepancy between the understanding of "location" from the human being side and the machine side acts as a major intrinsic cause of many problems shown in today's LBS, such as usability, accessibility or privacy issues. In this paper, benefits of taking advantages of relative location information are discussed. A framework of relative location orientated social networking is proposed by analyzing location related human knowledge and activities. To reveal potential challenges, a prototype is proposed and evaluated.
AB - Mobile location-based services (LBS) usually define locations in an absolute way, mainly coordinates. However, this absolute presentation of location rarely appears in the context of daily life. Instead, people tend to use relative location, defined on the basis of a location with relation to other locations. Research in cognitive geography also imply that relative location is closer to the human cognitive model. We suggest that this discrepancy between the understanding of "location" from the human being side and the machine side acts as a major intrinsic cause of many problems shown in today's LBS, such as usability, accessibility or privacy issues. In this paper, benefits of taking advantages of relative location information are discussed. A framework of relative location orientated social networking is proposed by analyzing location related human knowledge and activities. To reveal potential challenges, a prototype is proposed and evaluated.
KW - Relative Location
KW - mobile LBS
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U2 - 10.1145/2536853.2536937
DO - 10.1145/2536853.2536937
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84897647984
SN - 9781450321068
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 311
EP - 315
BT - Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2013
T2 - 11th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, MoMM 2013
Y2 - 2 December 2013 through 4 December 2013
ER -