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PERVASIVE
2007
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Mobile Social Software: Facilitating Serendipity or Encouraging Homogeneity?
Mobile social software is currently designed and conceived to afford serendipitous social interactions in densely populated urban environments. In this paper, I argue that these s...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
CityFlocks: designing social navigation for urban mobile information systems
CityFlocks is a mobile system enabling visitors and new residents in a city to tap into the knowledge and experiences of local residents, so as to gather information about their n...
Mark Bilandzic, Marcus Foth, Alexander De Luca
MHCI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Telelogs: a social communication space for urban environments
This paper presents a novel idea for a system known as Telelogs. Utilizing the ubiquity of mobile devices, Telelogs functions as a service by which individuals in an urban environ...
Brian Davis, Karrie Karahalios
URBAN
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Social area analysis, data mining, and GIS
: There is a long tradition of describing cities through a focus on the characteristics of their residents. A brief review of the history of this approach to describing cities high...
Seth E. Spielman, Jean-Claude Thill
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Exploring mobile technologies for the urban homeless
My research examines the practical and social impact of technology on the urban homeless. To accomplish this, I have conducted interviews with the homeless to understand how techn...
Christopher A. Le Dantec