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The role of community and groupware in geocache creation and maintenance

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Carman Neustaedter,

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CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1757 - 1766

https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753590

Published: 10 April 2010 Publication History

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Applications that provide location-based experiences are an increasingly viable design space given the proliferation of GPS-enabled mobile devices. However, these applications are in their infancy, and we do not yet know what design factors will contribute to their success. For this reason, we have studied the well-established location-based experience of geocaching. We report on the results of a survey of geocachers along with observations from our own in-depth geocaching activities. Our findings illustrate that geocaching permits users to create a range of experiences for others within a permeable yet restricted culture of norms. Once created, geocaches are maintained by the community of geocachers through a well-designed groupware system. Here maintenance acts can be performed "in the small," given their lightweight and well-defined nature, and become less about maintenance and more about personal participation. These findings provide insight into how community and groupware can be leveraged to support applications for location-based experiences.

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The role of community and groupware in geocache creation and maintenance
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
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DOI:10.1145/1753326

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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Carnegie Mellon University
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