Addressing Concepts for Mobile Location-Based Information Services

• Published in: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Ambient Interaction pp. 507 - 516
• Main Authors: Narzt, Wolfgang, Pomberger, Gustav, Ferscha, Alois, Kolb, Dieter, Müller, Reiner, Hörtner, Horst, Haring, Ronald
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Addressing Concepts; Mobile Location-Based Services; Spam
• ISBN: 9783540732808; 3540732802
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73281-5_54

Emerging mobile location-based information services enable people to place digital content into the physical world. Based on three technical com ponents (1) mobile devices, (2) wireless networking and (3) location-sensing the implementation of location-based services can be considered state of the art. In contrast, we observe a lack of conceptual work in terms of user interface issues, like designing indirect (one-to-any) addressing models, handling infor mation overflow and avoiding spam. Every user is able to arbitrarily place information anywhere without structure or restrictions, and is confronted with an information mess in return. The focus of this paper concentrates on a novel addressing concept for mobile location-based information services, which systematically structures both direct and indirect addressing methods and supports the users in finding or filtering the information they are interested in.