Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Raper, Jonathan
• Gartner, Georg
• Karimi, Hassan
• Rizos, Chris

Titel

A critical evaluation of location based services and their potential

Ist Teil von

• Journal of location based services, 2007-03, Vol.1 (1), p.5-45

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Online

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This Editorial lead article for the Journal of Location Based Services surveys this complex and multi-disciplinary field and identifies the key research issues. Although this field has produced early commercial disappointments, the inevitability that pervasive location-aware services on mobile devices will emerge means that much research is needed to inform these developments. The article reviews firstly: the science and technology of positioning, geographic information science, mobile cartography, spatial cognition and interfaces, information science, ubiquitous computing; and secondly the business, content and legal, social and ethics aspects, before synthesising the key issues for this new field.