Location Deception and Ambiguity in Mobile Visualizations for Social Awareness
Michael Voong, Russell Beale · 2008
Mobile social awareness visualizations display an aggregation of data from one or more sources information pertaining to the current status, activities or context of those within a user’s ego-centric social network, represented as awareness cues. In commercial and research-based location-based systems for social visualizations adopt only basic rules for tackling location deception – usually through a simple tracking on/off control. We show through analysis of a questionnaire deployed to heavy social network users that location deception is a common practice in existing communication channels, and argue the importance of applying this observation to future mobile social awareness system designs. Our poster will succinctly illustrate guidelines for social visualizations with deception in mind through a concept design of a mobile user interface making use of the touch gestures.