Interaction, privacy and profiling considerations in local mobile social software

Agile ridesharing aims to utilise the capability of social\udnetworks and mobile phones to facilitate people to share\udvehicles and travel in real time. However the application\udof social networking technologies in local communities to\udaddress issues of personal transport faces significant\uddesign challenges. In this paper we describe an iterative\uddesign-based approach to exploring this problem and\uddiscuss findings from the use of an early prototype. The\udfindings focus upon interaction, privacy and profiling.\udOur early results suggest that explicitly entering\udinformation such as ride data and personal profile data into\udformal fields for explicit computation of matches, as is\uddone in many systems, may not be the best strategy. It\udmight be preferable to support informal communication\udand negotiation with text search techniques