Comments on: Instant messaging with place recognition http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/07/11/instant-messaging-with-place-recognition/ Stories from around the Nokia neighbourhood Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:03:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: AKP http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/07/11/instant-messaging-with-place-recognition/comment-page-1/#comment-780 AKP Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:44:10 +0000 http://conversations.nokia.com/?p=454#comment-780 Rather than getting LBS to a Chat scenario , it will be better for a more socialising site like Orkut. The chance that I chat with someone while mobile and tracking a nearby friend in map is way too trendy for the civilization. But searching for friends through a Social networking site in a geographic area and calling them for a party is more a feasible reason..Again I have to think twice before revealing my latitude/longitude for public. However we can have business level usages like tracking slaes force, deliveries etc etc Rather than getting LBS to a Chat scenario , it will be better for a more socialising site like Orkut. The chance that I chat with someone while mobile and tracking a nearby friend in map is way too trendy for the civilization. But searching for friends through a Social networking site in a geographic area and calling them for a party is more a feasible reason..Again I have to think twice before revealing my latitude/longitude for public.
However we can have business level usages like tracking slaes force, deliveries etc etc

]]> By: Sven Koerber http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/07/11/instant-messaging-with-place-recognition/comment-page-1/#comment-781 Sven Koerber Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:56:04 +0000 http://conversations.nokia.com/?p=454#comment-781 From my experience as a UX researcher working on presence-related projects, I agree that being tracked by a system sounds scary for many mobile users. The least such a system can do to address this is, as you say, to give users control over what is revealed to whom. Ideally, the system should allow users to lie about their position, e.g. by transmitting a believable false position. One could even have one's position dynamically faked, so that it looks like you're a good distance away from everybody else who has their tracking system on... The usefulness of such a system to a group imho depends on the negotiated level of openness regarding one's current position and the social practices around it. If no one expects anyone to be truthful, location info is simply not useful at all. If everybody expects everybody else to be truthful and always connected, it might feel restrictive to users who'd like to "sneak away" undetected. But those'll find a way to explain that away... There's also a disconnect between the perceived level of usefulness of such a system: if everybody else has their status updated that's very nice info to have. But I'd expect that being on everybody else's radar is a much less attractive idea. It'd be interesting to hear about your experiences around openness and truthfulness while using this system with your colleagues! From my experience as a UX researcher working on presence-related projects, I agree that being tracked by a system sounds scary for many mobile users.

The least such a system can do to address this is, as you say, to give users control over what is revealed to whom. Ideally, the system should allow users to lie about their position, e.g. by transmitting a believable false position. One could even have one’s position dynamically faked, so that it looks like you’re a good distance away from everybody else who has their tracking system on…

The usefulness of such a system to a group imho depends on the negotiated level of openness regarding one’s current position and the social practices around it. If no one expects anyone to be truthful, location info is simply not useful at all. If everybody expects everybody else to be truthful and always connected, it might feel restrictive to users who’d like to “sneak away” undetected. But those’ll find a way to explain that away…

There’s also a disconnect between the perceived level of usefulness of such a system: if everybody else has their status updated that’s very nice info to have. But I’d expect that being on everybody else’s radar is a much less attractive idea.

It’d be interesting to hear about your experiences around openness and truthfulness while using this system with your colleagues!

]]> By: Sven Koerber http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/07/11/instant-messaging-with-place-recognition/comment-page-1/#comment-782 Sven Koerber Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:55:09 +0000 http://conversations.nokia.com/?p=454#comment-782 From my experience as a UX researcher working on presence-related projects, I agree that being tracked by a system sounds scary for many mobile users. The least such a system can do to address this is, as you say, to give users control over what is revealed to whom. Ideally, the system should allow users to lie about their position, e.g. by transmitting a believable false position. One could even have one's position dynamically faked, so that it looks like you're a good distance away from everybody else who has their tracking system on... The usefulness of such a system to a group imho depends on the negotiated level of openness regarding one's current position and the social practices around it. If no one expects anyone to be truthful, location info is simply not useful at all. If everybody expects everybody else to be truthful and always connected, it might feel restrictive to users who'd like to "sneak away" undetected. But those'll find a way to explain that away... There's also a disconnect between the perceived level of usefulness of such a system: if everybody else has their status updated that's very nice info to have. But I'd expect that being on everybody else's radar is a much less attractive idea. It'd be interesting to hear about your experiences around openness and truthfulness while using this system with your colleagues! From my experience as a UX researcher working on presence-related projects, I agree that being tracked by a system sounds scary for many mobile users.

The least such a system can do to address this is, as you say, to give users control over what is revealed to whom. Ideally, the system should allow users to lie about their position, e.g. by transmitting a believable false position. One could even have one’s position dynamically faked, so that it looks like you’re a good distance away from everybody else who has their tracking system on…

The usefulness of such a system to a group imho depends on the negotiated level of openness regarding one’s current position and the social practices around it. If no one expects anyone to be truthful, location info is simply not useful at all. If everybody expects everybody else to be truthful and always connected, it might feel restrictive to users who’d like to “sneak away” undetected. But those’ll find a way to explain that away…

There’s also a disconnect between the perceived level of usefulness of such a system: if everybody else has their status updated that’s very nice info to have. But I’d expect that being on everybody else’s radar is a much less attractive idea.

It’d be interesting to hear about your experiences around openness and truthfulness while using this system with your colleagues!

]]> By: Filippo http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/07/11/instant-messaging-with-place-recognition/comment-page-1/#comment-783 Filippo Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:08:09 +0000 http://conversations.nokia.com/?p=454#comment-783 This is the next step :) well done !! This is the next step :) well done !!

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