How dangerous is your life? Personalising Government open crime data

Garbett, Andrew and Linehan, Conor and Kirman, Ben and Wardman, Jamie and Lawson, Shaun (2012) How dangerous is your life? Personalising Government open crime data. In: ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems 2012, 5 - 10 May, 2012, Austin, Texas.

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Abstract

This paper discusses the use of Government Open Data and how public services based on this data can and should encourage data personalisation. We present our case study Fearsquare, an application that allows people to interact with public UK crime statistics in a way that is specific to their own, individual, everyday life by leveraging the popular social media service FourSquare. This service is used as an example of how Open Data can be tailored for used in the field of personal informatics. Results suggest that the ability to personalise Government Open Crime Data using Foursquare user location history data provides an added value to an already publically available dataset.

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Additional Information: This paper discusses the use of Government Open Data and how public services based on this data can and should encourage data personalisation. We present our case study Fearsquare, an application that allows people to interact with public UK crime statistics in a way that is specific to their own, individual, everyday life by leveraging the popular social media service FourSquare. This service is used as an example of how Open Data can be tailored for used in the field of personal informatics. Results suggest that the ability to personalise Government Open Crime Data using Foursquare user location history data provides an added value to an already publically available dataset.
Keywords: social media, personalisation, open data, foursquare, public engagement
Subjects: G Mathematical and Computer Sciences > G440 Human-computer Interaction
Divisions: College of Sciences > Faculty of Science > Lincoln School of Computer Science
Depositing User: Users 2844 not found.
Date Deposited: 31 May 2012 15:54
Last Modified: 13 Mar 2013 09:09
URI: http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/5734

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