I’m the mayor of my house: Examining why people use foursquare-- a social--driven location sharing application

Janne Lindqvist; Justin Cranshaw; Jason Wiese; Jason Hong; John Zimmerman

doi:10.1145/1978942.1979295

I’m the mayor of my house: Examining why people use foursquare-- a social--driven location sharing application

Janne Lindqvist^*, Justin Cranshaw, Jason Wiese, Jason Hong, John Zimmerman

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Not published at Aalto University

Carnegie Mellon University

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Abstract

There have been many location sharing systems developed over the past two decades, and only recently have they started to be adopted by consumers. In this paper, we present the results of three studies focusing on the foursquare check-in system. We conducted interviews and two surveys to understand, both qualitatively and quantitatively, how and why people use location sharing applications, as well as how they manage their privacy. We also document surprising uses of foursquare, and discuss implications for design of mobile social services.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts
Publisher	ACM
Pages	2409-2418
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450302289
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979295
Publication status	Published - 13 Jun 2011
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 7 May 2011 → 12 May 2011 Conference number: 29 http://www.chi2011.org/

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Conference	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	ACM CHI
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	07/05/2011 → 12/05/2011
Internet address	http://www.chi2011.org/

Keywords

Check-in
Foursquare
Location based service
Mobile computing
Privacy
Social computing
Uses and gratifications

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Lindqvist, J., Cranshaw, J., Wiese, J., Hong, J., & Zimmerman, J. (2011). I’m the mayor of my house: Examining why people use foursquare-- a social--driven location sharing application. In CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts (pp. 2409-2418). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979295

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CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. ACM, 2011. p. 2409-2418.

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