Location Disclosure to Social Relations: Why, When, & What People Want to Share
📜 Abstract
We present the results of a field study of user preferences for location disclosure to social relations. A custom-built tool enabled participants to specify preferences for location disclosure to individuals and groups. Interviews corroborated that people seemed to want to disclose location according to common sense measures that require understanding the different situations in which someone might desire to obtain location information, and that such understanding might be best provided by people themselves.
✨ Summary
This research paper explores user preferences regarding location disclosure in social contexts. It presents findings from a field study on how individuals choose to share their location information with different social relations using a custom-built tool. The study revealed that people’s location-sharing preferences are largely guided by situational judgments and supported the notion that users prefer control over who receives their location data.
The paper is significant for contributions to the fields of privacy, user preference modeling in context-aware systems, and ubiquitous computing. It underscores the importance of user-driven privacy settings and the need for systems to accommodate nuanced user preferences.
After a web search, I found that this paper has been cited by other studies investigating user privacy concerns in mobile and ubiquitous computing. Relevant citations include: 1. Understanding Users’ Privacy Expectations: The Role of Situational Context and Privacy Concerns 2. A framework for privacy-preserving context-aware mobile applications 3. Data protection on mobile devices using location privacy preserving mechanisms
These works extend the understanding of privacy mechanisms in digital systems factoring location disclosure preferences, further validating the impact of this study on continued research in privacy-aware technological development.