Perceived Benefits and Concerns of Prospective Users of the SmartCampus Location-Aware Community System Test-bed

The SmartCampus initiative aims to turn an urban university campus into a living laboratory for location aware community system services. To lay a foundation for this effort, the SmartCampus test-bed is being created through provisioning to 500+ students with personal computing devices (smart phones and tablet PCs), which will run a suite of applications that link “people-to-peopleto-place”, or P3-systems. To explore anticipated usage and concerns, and to use this information to help to refine the design of various applications, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a cross section of 65 members of the NJIT campus community. The interviews employed hypothetical use scenarios to enable prospective users to give their opinions about applications that did not yet exist at the time of the study. Most students were quick to see the possible benefits of applications that can allow one, for instance, to see the campus location of their ‘buddies’ at a glance. The major concer...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Eunhee Kim, Maria Plummer, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Quentin Jones
• Keywords: Biometrics, HICSS 2007, Location Aware Community, NJIT Campus Community, System Sciences, Urban University Campus