Development and Evaluation of Situation Information Sharing System Based on User's Permission-based Privacy

Accession number;07A0065922
Title;Development and Evaluation of Situation Information Sharing System Based on User's Permission-based Privacy
Author; HIRATA TOSHIYUKI (Japan Advanced Inst. Sci. and Technol., Hokuriku) KUNIFUJI SUSUMU (Japan Advanced Inst. Sci. and Technol., Hokuriku)
Journal Title;IPSJ Transactions on Database
Journal Code:Z0778A
ISSN:0387-5806
VOL.48;NO.1;PAGE.189-199(2007)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.12, TBL.5, REF.18
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;The advancements in computer networks and mobile computing technology in recent years have eliminated many of the time and space restrictions on the flow of communication. This has resulted in changes to the environment. In the conventional environment, there was no distance between people; hence, they were aware of and could understand the actions of each other. However, the changes in the environment in recent years have promoted decentralization in the work surroundings and have led to asynchronous work timings. As a result, communication between the members of an organization is no longer smooth and suffers from a sense of incongruity. Therefore, in order that members are able to understand each other's situations, research has been conducted in the recent past on information sharing systems based on location information. However, in general, a conventional system shares information on users regardless of whether or not a member actually desires such information. Therefore, in this paper, we describe our system that shares right user's information of mainly location information according to user's policy. We conducted experiments using this system meant for communities among acquaintances of our school. We then evaluated and analyzed the results of the experiment. The result shows that system was solving privacy problem. (author abst.)