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Geolocation in the mobile web browser

Published: 26 September 2010 Publication History

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Current mobile browser capabilities make it possible to quickly develop advanced mobile location based services without having to write device specific software, or build custom hardware. We here describe three web applications exploring using location within mobile browsers (TågAlong, NearMe and LocalURL). These explorations show clear potential for using geolocation in the web browser in order to reach a larger user base, with a greater variety of devices, thus allowing for UbiComp researchers to explore the effects of specific services and applications on a larger scale. We discuss the services, as well as the potential and challenges with using the user's location directly in the browser.

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UbiComp '10 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing - Adjunct
September 2010
203 pages
ISBN:9781450302838
DOI:10.1145/1864431

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Published: 26 September 2010

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  1. geolocation
  2. location-based services
  3. mobile services

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Ubicomp '10: The 2010 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
September 26 - 29, 2010
Copenhagen, Denmark

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