Talking about Place: An Experiment in How People Describe Places
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چکیده
How people describe places is an important issue for the design of location-aware systems. We report here on an experiment that investigated the types of descriptions people naturally produce for places, the extent to which they tailor descriptions for different audiences, and the factors they consider in deciding how to tailor their descriptions. We identified a number of common types of place descriptions and a few common factors(purpose, knows me, knows area, privacy) that influenced what description a person chose. These results show that social applications should make the audience for place descriptions clear, and that systems should allow multiple descriptions for the same place, including making it possible for users to describe their location in different ways to different people.
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