Location based services: ongoing evolution and research agenda

Haosheng Huang,Georg Gartner,Jukka M Krisp,Martin Raubal,Nico Van De Weghe

doi:10.1080/17489725.2018.1508763

Abstract

ABSTRACTWe are now living in a mobile information era, which is fundamentally changing science and society. Location Based Services (LBS), which deliver information depending on the location of the (mobile) device and user, play a key role in this mobile information era. This article first reviews the ongoing evolution and research trends of the scientific field of LBS in the past years. To motivate further LBS research and stimulate collective efforts, this article then presents a series of key research challenges that are essential to advance the development of LBS, setting a research agenda for LBS to ‘positively’ shape the future of our mobile information society. These research challenges cover issues related to the core of LBS development (e.g. positioning, modelling, and communication), evaluation, and analysis of LBS-generated data, as well as social, ethical, and behavioural issues that rise as LBS enter into people’s daily lives.

Highlights

While the first location based services (LBS) appeared in the early 1990s (e.g. ActiveBadge), LBS became a fast-developing research field only in the early 2000s, mainly due to the discontinuation of the selective availability1 of Global Positioning System (GPS) by the U.S President Bill Clinton in May 2000
Besides the persistent challenges in LBS that were already outlined in previous LBS research agendas (Raper et al 2007a; Jiang and Yao 2006), we focus here on new challenges raised in recent years
The development of this research agenda was designed as a joint activity of the LBS research community, which mainly consists of experts from GIScience, cartography, geomatics, surveying, computer science, and social sciences

Summary

Introduction

While the first location based services (LBS) appeared in the early 1990s (e.g. ActiveBadge), LBS became a fast-developing research field only in the early 2000s, mainly due to the discontinuation of the selective availability of Global Positioning System (GPS) by the U.S President Bill Clinton in May 2000. This discontinuation has made GPS more responsive to civil and commercial users worldwide. LBS can be defined as computer applications (especially mobile computing applications) that deliver information tailored to the location and context of the device and the user (Raper et al 2007a; Brimicombe and Chao 2009). There has been an increasing demand in expanding LBS

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