Accepted: Late Breaking Results at UbiComp 2007
Posted: July 17th, 2007 | 2 Comments »My work-in-progress submission entitled “Place this Photo on a Map: A Study of Explicit Disclosure of Location Information” has been accepted to the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 16-19 September 2007, Innsbruck, Austria.
Abstract. This paper reports on the early results from an ongoing study of the use of popular photo-sharing platform. We specifically focus our investigation on the factors influencing the accuracy users choose to link their photos to the physical world. We believe that modeling these mechanism can impact the design of ubiquitous systems that support sharing and retrieval of location-enhance information. For instance, it could suggest guidelines to match people’s expectations of granularity in location information. Our early results reveal that while familiarity with a place does not seem to influence the accuracy of the disclosed location, the city and type of urban landscape impact the use of coarse and fine-grained location information.
The reviewers’ feedback are positive about the pertinence of this work and the approach. They mention “relevant to ubicomp”, “the concepts and the writing are generally good”, “the problem is important and the early findings are interesting”, “good problem formulation and research methodology”, “the authors have taken the proper first steps by looking at a real-world data set”. However, they question the early analysis:
- I concentrate on how people tag, rather than what is actually done with those tags. So I won’t be able to know about the usefulness of granularity.
- More depth analysis and logic should be supplied to make the Barcelona results believable.
- Application of arbitrary boundaries (why 2 months to seperate between resident and tourists. I could have let the categories emerge.
- Why familiarity with the environment was the only metrics chosen.
- Some more depth to the results, even in a few more sentences
- The results might be strongly tied to Flickr, thus I need to validate the findings by cross-checking different platforms.
Relation to my thesis: A final extended abstract to help me validate Tracing the Visitor’s Eye.
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