Small Surfaces » usefulness http://smallsurfaces.com mobile user interface design / user experience design / interaction design resources Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:10:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Do we need LBS? http://smallsurfaces.com/2008/06/do-we-need-lbs/ http://smallsurfaces.com/2008/06/do-we-need-lbs/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:40:57 +0000 Gabriel White http://www.smallsurfaces.com/?p=449 Bernhard Schindlholzer wrote that “even though I am confident that there will certainly be significant growth in some areas (i.e. vehicle tracking, in-car traffic information) I doubt that someday everyone will be using Google’s “Search nearby” feature to find the next ATM, restaurant or supermarket…the majority of people still roam in just a few locations and in general they do not move far from home. Vacations and business travel are exceptions – the percentage of time individuals spend in locations they don’t know is very small.”

Link: Do humans really need location-based services? (customer-experience-labs.com, via)

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