lnu.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Do Privacy Concerns Matter in Adoption of Location-based Smartphone Applications for Entertainment Purposes: A Study Among University Students in Sweden
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Technology, Department of Informatics.
2017 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Adoption of location-based services (LBS) was for a long time below expectations, and most of the studies attribute it to privacy concerns of users. However, many new LBS applications are currently among the most downloaded application for smartphones, particularly entertainment applications. Therefore, this research aims to find out whether privacy concerns still matter to users and to explore the role of the privacy in the adoption of LBS entertaining applications. The adopted methodology is qualitative research and data are collected through interviews and additional information from the smartphones ofparticipants. Ten individuals among university students at Linnaeus University in Sweden are selected for this research, and this sample choice is per their experience with two selected LBS entertaining applications, Pokémon Go and Tinder. As a result, six themes have been recognized to answer the research questions. Low privacy concerns about location information, especially in entertainment applications with negligible effect on adoption have been identified. However, author of this research suggests, that developers of LBS entertaining applications should care for retaining their credibility because it can have an impact on the adoption of their LBS services.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017.
Keywords [en]
Location-based service, privacy concerns, service adoption, location information, smartphone application, entertainment, Pokémon Go, Tinder, university students
National Category
Computer Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-67092OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-67092DiVA, id: diva2:1128461
Subject / course
Informatics
Educational program
Master Programme in Information Systems, 60 credits
Supervisors
Examiners
Available from: 2017-07-31 Created: 2017-07-25 Last updated: 2017-07-31Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(1326 kB)342 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 1326 kBChecksum SHA-512
82112932e159ee639c063ec01452ff79ce1810f2eecc97fbeab17a250e62f4a534d3ae5d181506f70a243a1749a4ed5359b2ed087c0ead33c5e9959ee96f161c
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

By organisation
Department of Informatics
Computer Systems

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 353 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 479 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf