Instructions for Laptop Users

Please follow these instructions:
  1. Add the Facebook Application
  2. Invite Friends
  3. Make Your Rules
  4. Install the Locaccino Locator
  5. Audit

Step 1. Add the Facebook Application

  • Click here (opens in a new window) to add the Locaccino for Facebook application.
  • After you have logged into Facebook, click on the “Allow” button as shown below.
    allow


  • Read the terms of the study, check “I agree to the above,” if you agree to participate in the study.
    consent

Step 2. Invite your friends

Click on the Invite tab and invite friends to add Locaccino. Pick the friends you want to invite and click the send button. Your friends are welcome to join the study (if they are from CMU). Don’t forget to nudge them!

invite

Step 3. Make your rules

Click on the Privacy Settings tab and set your location sharing preferences that determine the conditions under which your friends can see your location (e.g. “My classmates can only see my location during week days 9am-5pm and while I am on the campus”)

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Step 4. Download and Install the Locaccino Locator

To make Locaccino work, you’ll need to download and install an application on your laptop.
Click the Get Started button, which will take you to the download page. Click the Download button, and install the Locator.

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Step 5. Audit

Audit at least three times a week on the Friends’ Views page. Indicate how comfortable you are with each instance a friend had tried to check your location.

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