Connecting people at a conference: A study of influence between offline and online using a mobile social application

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE Int. Conf. on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2012, Conf. on Internet of Things, iThings 2012 and Conf. on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, CPSCom 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 277-284

  Zuo, Xiang ^a   Chin, Alvin ^b   Fan, Xiaoguang ^c   Xu, Bin ^d   Hong, Dezhi ^e   Wang, Ying ^f   Wang, Xia ^b  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d Social Dynamics Laboratory   (United States)

^e University of Virginia   (United States)

^f CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Encounters; Ephemeral social network; Homophily; Online social network; Physical proximity

Indexed keywords

ENCOUNTERS; EPHEMERAL SOCIAL NETWORKS; HOMOPHILY; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PHYSICAL PROXIMITY;

ACTIVE NETWORKS; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84875518046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GreenCom.2012.52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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