Cooperation over Internet, using Rich Presence
Anders Gjerde, Eirik Hodne, Hallvard Røe Evensmoen, Ola Nordbryhn, Vegar Westerlund · 2007
This report is the result of four months work under the supervision of Telenor and it undertakes issues regarding Rich Presence services, their public acceptance and protection of privacy. Our motivation has been to aid Telenor R&I in their research by producing a report based on several documented references, our own opinions and two indepth interviews. We have achieved results clearly indicating that people are initially skeptical as to sharing personal info, but are willing to share once the benefits are presented. The most important aspect is whether people trust the system and perceive it as secure and infallible. Our conclusion is that such a system needs to have a lowentry level, flexible options for advanced users, but with pre-defined and strict default settings. To boost the system’s popularity, there is a