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In recent years, mobile devices such as smartphones have become more powerful, gaining the ability to communicate using multiple networking technologies. This evolution has given rise to pervasive social applications that enable social networking on the move. Currently, it is hard to take advantage of the available networking technologies because communication has to be managed separately for each...
Friend of a Friend (FOAF) introductions are an effective means to grow detected social graphs in mobile applications. By detecting triadic closure in the social graph they both introduce co-present users who are not already acquainted, and improve the accuracy of the social graph. We searched for the presence of triadic closure in a real mobile social network, and tested the suitability of FOAF introductions...
Mobile devices such as cell phone, PDA and smart phone have been so popularized that they are to be a necessity for everyday life. These mobile devices can be very useful tools to collect users' life-logs because they have many sensors and users always carry them. Therefore, many studies using mobile life-logs are actually being conducted. Mobile life-logs include interaction information between users...
Small talk is an important social lubricant that helps people, especially strangers, initiate conversations and make friends with each other in physical proximity. However, due to difficulties in quickly identifying significant topics of common interest, real-world small talk tends to be superficial. The mass popularity of mobile phones can help improve the effectiveness of small talk. In this paper,...
Social networking sites obtained a great success in the last years. Their popularity is related to changing lifestyles, where people increasingly look for new acquaintances or cultivate old friendships by means of the Internet, typically using a PC. Yet along with the rapidly increasing amount of mobile phone users, as well as the development of so-called smart phones, the possibility for creating...
Sensors can capture very sensitive and valuable information without human intervention and send it to remote location. However, capturing sensory data from a body sensor network (BSN) and sending it to social networks is a challenging task. This is because it requires a number of distributed networks to work together seamlessly. The task becomes more challenging when both the BSN and the social networks...
In developing regions, Internet connectivity is extremely poor, while mobile phone penetration is much higher. The inhabitants of developing countries still rely on traditional social mechanisms, such as word-of-mouth, to gather most information that they use in everyday life. In this paper, we propose Goose, a social network service (SNS) architecture for developing regions, which provides services...
This project explores possibilities of association between existing social network information and real-world physical interaction. These possibilities are explored through the integration of wearables technology with mobile social network technology. We use the term "mobile social networking" to refer to those advanced interactions which integrate complex real world actions with online...
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