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Sharing The Big Apple : A Survey Study Of People, Place And Locatability, Samer Nadim Karam
Sharing The Big Apple : A Survey Study Of People, Place And Locatability, Samer Nadim Karam
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Over the past half century social trends and new technologies have weakened local social ties and thus, the fabric of civil society itself. Mobile location-aware community systems offer one path to redress these problems by enhancing community cohesion and the formation of social capital by helping people to meet each other and coordinate their actions. However, little is known about the general population's desire and attitude towards these systems.
The design space described by the People-to-People-to-Geographical-Places Framework (P3-Framework), was used to guide a survey study of the impact of 'place' on people's social information needs and their willingness to share …