Physical proximity and online user behaviour in an indoor mobile social networking application

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conferences on Internet of Things and Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, iThings/CPSCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 273-282

  Xu, Bin ^a,b   Chin, Alvin ^a   Wang, Hao ^a   Chang, Lele ^a,b   Zhang, Ke ^a   Yin, Fangxi ^a   Zhang, Li ^b   Weng, Hao ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Indoor positioning; Physical proximity; Social behavior; Social computing; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

INDOOR POSITIONING; PHYSICAL PROXIMITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; INTERNET; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84863293190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iThings/CPSCom.2011.74     Document Type: Conference Paper

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