People Avoiding Automatic Location Information in Mobile Services

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Helsinki University of Technology

July 9, 2009

Providers of fully automatic Web and mobile location information services will need to allow users to edit the information to get more people to use the features, according to researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. In a study on mobile services publishing of automatic location information, Sami Vihavainen, Antti Oulasvirta and Risto Sarvas discovered that users tend to embrace the features when they view them as useful and can easily control the information flow...

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