Bart Knijnenburg (A. Kobsa, advisor), interned this summer at Samsung Information Systems America (SISA) R&D Center in San Jose. The focus of his project was to understand and influence the user’s decision to share their location. He also presented his paper “Inspectability and Control in Social Recom-menders” at the 6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012), in Dublin, Ireland, in Sept. The paper was co-authored by Svetlin Bostandjiev and John O’Donovan of UC Santa Barbara, and his advisor Prof. Alfred Kobsa.