TY - GEN
T1 - LYLO - Exploring Disclosed Configurations for Inter-Personal Location Sharing
AU - Schneegass, Christina
AU - Irmscher, Diana
AU - Bemmann, Florian
AU - Buschek, Daniel
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Continuous location sharing (CLS) can foster intimacy, for example, for couples in long-distance relationships. However, turning off CLS can then raise suspicions. To address this, we developed nuanced sharing settings in a focus group (N = 6) and implemented them to moderate CLS in an Android app. Crucially, the app also discloses each person's current sharing settings to the partner. In a 16-day field study, four couples interacted with our app and the disclosed configurations, confirming the disclosure's positive effect on transparency. However, features obfuscating the location were considered superfluous, as participants preferred sharing their location exactly or not at all. While participants overall appreciated having the configuration options, changes in their partners' configurations raised questions about their motivations. Instead, participants would adjust the configuration for different intimacy levels (colleague vs. partner) rather than different activities when using CLS with the same person.
AB - Continuous location sharing (CLS) can foster intimacy, for example, for couples in long-distance relationships. However, turning off CLS can then raise suspicions. To address this, we developed nuanced sharing settings in a focus group (N = 6) and implemented them to moderate CLS in an Android app. Crucially, the app also discloses each person's current sharing settings to the partner. In a 16-day field study, four couples interacted with our app and the disclosed configurations, confirming the disclosure's positive effect on transparency. However, features obfuscating the location were considered superfluous, as participants preferred sharing their location exactly or not at all. While participants overall appreciated having the configuration options, changes in their partners' configurations raised questions about their motivations. Instead, participants would adjust the configuration for different intimacy levels (colleague vs. partner) rather than different activities when using CLS with the same person.
KW - continuous location sharing
KW - data protection
KW - disclosed configurations
KW - privacy
KW - transparency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85105798522&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3411763.3451652
DO - 10.1145/3411763.3451652
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85105798522
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2021
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
T2 - 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Making Waves, Combining Strengths, CHI EA 2021
Y2 - 8 May 2021 through 13 May 2021
ER -