Linking people through physical proximity in a conference

MSM'12 - Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Modeling Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 13-20

  Chin, Alvin ^a   Xu, Bin ^b   Wang, Hao ^c   Wang, Xia ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Babytreecom   (China)

Author keywords

Encounters; Offline interactions; Offline to online; Physical proximity; Social influence; Social linking; Social selection

Indexed keywords

ENCOUNTERS; OFFLINE; PHYSICAL PROXIMITY; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL LINKING; SOCIAL SELECTION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84864051855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2310057.2310061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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