Publication
Second International Workshop on Location and the Web
Erik Wilde; Susanne Boll; Keith Cheverst; Peter Fröhlich; Ross Purves; Johannes Schöning
In: LOCWEB '09: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Location and the Web. International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb-09), located at in Conjunction with CHI 09, April 4, Boston, MA, USA, Pages 1-2, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, ISBN 978-1-60558-457-7, ACM, 2009.
Abstract
Location-Based Services are becoming increasingly Web-based,
as a result of the availability of networked mobile devices
and mobile Internet access. The Location and the Web
(LocWeb) workshop targets the capabilities and constraints
of Web-based location-based services, which can be imple-
mented as browser-based applications, or as native appli-
cations using Web services. The focus of this CHI work-
shop is on developing approaches to handle the complex-
ity of location-based services, specifically looking at location
abstractions, location sharing, context-relevant information,
privacy issues, and interface design. The goal of this work-
shop is to serve as a starting point for better understand-
ing how the Web has to change to embrace location as a
first-level concept, and how these changes are refected in
applications and user interfaces to transform the Web into
a platform for location-based services.