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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
ISWC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
VibeFones: Socially Aware Mobile Phones
Today's mobile phones are essentially off-the-shelf, mass-market wearable computers. In this paper, we describe mobile social software that uses location, proximity and tone ...
Anmol Madan, Alex Pentland
WIMOB
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
VENETA: Serverless Friend-of-Friend Detection in Mobile Social Networking
—Recently, mobile social software has become an active area of research and development. A multitude of systems have been proposed over the past years that try to follow the succ...
Marco von Arb, Matthias Bader, Michael Kuhn 0002, ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Location and activity sharing in everyday mobile communication
Frank Bentley We present a study on current, real-world communication of location and activity information based on analyzing context-sharing practices in recorded mobile phone cal...
Frank Bentley, Crysta J. Metcalf
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Supporting volunteer activities with mobile social software
Many community organizations rely extensively on volunteer work. However, people who wish to help often have difficulties finding the time to volunteer. We are developing mobile s...
Shaun K. Kane, Predrag V. Klasnja
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Communication as information-seeking: the case for mobile social software for developing regions
In this paper, we describe several findings from a multi-year, multi-method study of how information and communication technologies have been adopted and adapted in Central Asia. ...
Beth E. Kolko, Emma J. Rose, Erica J. Johnson