Connecting people through physical proximity and physical resources at a conference

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Chin, Alvin ^a   Xu, Bin ^a   Wang, Hao ^a   Chang, Lele ^a   Zhu, Lijun ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ephemeral social network; Mobile social network; Physical proximity; Resource; Social networking

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERED NETWORKS; EPHEMERAL SOCIAL NETWORKS; MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PHYSICAL PROXIMITY; PHYSICAL RESOURCES; POSITIONING TECHNOLOGIES; RESOURCE; SOCIAL CONNECTION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84880232901     PISSN: 21576904     EISSN: 21576912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2483669.2483683     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. AHARONY, N., PAN, W., IP, C.,KHAYAL, I., AND PENTLAND, A. 2011. The social fmri: Measuring, understanding and designing social mechanisms in the real world. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'11), ACM Press, New York, 445-454.
2. AKA-AKI NETWORKS. 2011. aka-aki. http://www.aka-aki.com/.
3. ATZMÜLLER, M., BENZ, D., DOERFEL, S., HOTHO, A., J?ASCHKE, R., MACEK, B. E., MITZLAFF, F., SCHOLZ, C., AND STUMME, G. 2011. Enhancing social interactions at conferences. Inf. Technol. 53, 3, 101-107.
4. BACKSTROM, L.,HUTTENLOCHER, D., KLEINBERG, J., AND LAN, X. 2006. Group formation in large social networks: Membership, growth, and evolution. In Proceedings of 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. ACM Press, New York, 44-54.
5. BACKSTROM, L., SUN, E., AND MARLOW, C. 2010. Find me if you can: Improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web. ACM Press, New York, 61-70.
6. BARKHUUS, L., BROWN, B., BELL, M., SHERWOOD, S., HALL, M., AND CHALMERS, M. 2008. From awareness to repartee: Sharing location within social groups. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press, New York, 497-506.
7. BARRAT, A.,CATTUTO, C., SZOMSZOR,M.,VANDEN BROECK,W., AND ALANI, H. 2010. Social dynamics in conferences: Analysis of data from the live social semantics application. In Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'10). Springer, 17-33.
8. BEACH, M., GARTRELL, AKKALA, S., ELSTON, J., KELLEY, J., NISHIMOTO, K., RAY, B., RAZGULIN, S., SUNDARESAN, K., SURENDAR, B., TERADA, M., AND HAN, R. 2008. Whozthat? Evolving an ecosystem for context-aware mobile social networks. IEEE Netw. 22, 50-55.
9. CATTUTO, C., VAN DEN BROECK, W., BARRAT, A., COLIZZA, V., PINTON, J.-F., AND VESPIGNANI, A. 2010. Dynamics of person-to-person interactions from distributed rfid sensor networks. PLoS ONE 5, 7, e11596.
10. CHANG, L., CHIN, A., WANG, H., ZHU, L., ZHANG, K., YIN, F., WANG, H., AND ZHANG, L. 2011. Enhancing the experience and efficiency at a conference with mobile social networking: Case study with find and connect. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Centric Computing and Embedded and Multimedia Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol. 102, Springer, 1-12.
11. CRANSHAW, J., TOCH, E., HONG, J., KITTUR, A., AND SADEH, N. 2010. Bridging the gap between physical location and online social networks. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. ACM Press, New York, 119-128.
12. DE MORAES, L. F. M. AND NUNES, B. A. A. 2006. Calibration-free wlan location system based on dynamic mapping of signal strength. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access. ACM Press, New York, 92-99.
13. DHOLAKIA, U. M., BAGOZZI, R. P., AND PEARO, L. K. 2004. A social influence model of consumer participation in network-and small-group-based virtual communities. Int. J. Res. Market. 21, 241-263.
14. EAGLE, N. AND PENTLAND, A. 2005. Social serendipity: Mobilizing social software. IEEE Pervas. Comput. 4, 2, 28-34.
15. EAGLE, N. AND PENTLAND, A. 2009. Inferring friendship network structure by using mobile phone data. Proc. National Acad. Sci. 106, 36, 15274-15278.
16. EASLEY, D. AND KLEINBERG, J. 2010. Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World. Cambridge University Press.
17. EKAHAU. 2011. Ekahau real-time location system. http://www.ekahau.com/ products/real-time-locationsystem/ overview.html.
18. ENGESTROM, J. 2005. Why some social network services work and others don't- or: The case for object-centered sociality. http://www.zengestrom.com/ blog/2005/04/why-some-social-network-services-work-and-othersdont- or-the-case-for-object-centered-sociality.html.
19. GUO, B. SATAKE, S., AND IMAI, M. 2008. Home-explorer. Ontology-based physical artifact search and hidden object detection system. Mobile Inf. Syst. 4, 2, 81-103.
20. HALL, E. T. 1963. A system for the notation of proxemic behaviour. Amer. Anthropol. 65, 1003-1026.
21. HIGHTOWER, J., LAMARCA, A., AND SMITH, I. 2006. Practical lessons from place lab. IEEE Pervas. Comput. 5, 32-39.
22. HUANG, S., PROUL, F., AND RATTI, C. 2007. IFind: A peer-to-peer application for real-time location monitoring on the mit campus. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management. 1-12.
23. HUANG, C.-M., LAN, K.-C., AND TSAI, C.-Z. 2008. A survey of opportunistic networks. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Workshops. IEEE Computer Society, 1672-1677.
24. HUCKFELDT, R. R., 1983. Social contexts, social networks, and urban neighborhoods: Environmental constraints on friendship choice. Amer. J. Sociol. 89, 651-669.
25. KOSTAKOS, V. AND ONEILL, E. 2008. Capturing and visualising Bluetooth encounters. In Adjunct Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Workshop on Social Data Analysis (CHI'08). ACM Press, New York, 1-4.
26. MADAN, A.,CEBRIAN, M., LAZER, D., AND PENTLAND, A. 2010. Social sensing for epidemiological behavior change. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'10). ACM Press, New York, 291-300.
27. MCPHERSON, M., SMITH-LOVIN, L., AND COOK, J. M. 2001. Birds of a feather: Homophily in social networks. Annual Rev. Sociol. 27, 415-444.
28. PAN, W., DONG, W., CEBRIAN, M., KIM, T., FOWLER, J. H., AND PENTLAND, A. 2010. Modeling dynamical influence in human interaction patterns. http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0240.
29. PAULOS, E. AND GOODMAN, E. 2004. The familiar stranger: Anxiety, comfort, and play in public places. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '04). ACM Press, New York, 223-230.
30. QUERCIA, D. AND CAPRA, L. 2009. FriendSensing: Recommending friends using mobile phones. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. ACM Press, New York, 273-276.
31. ROBINS, G., ELLIOTT, P., AND PATTISON, P. 2001. Network models for social selection processes. Social Netw. 23, 1, 1-30.
32. SU, J., CHIN, A., POPIVANOVA, A., GOEL, A., AND DE LARA, E. 2004. User mobility for opportunistic ad-hoc networking. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications. IEEE Computer Society, 41-50.
33. SXSW. 2011. SXSW go mobile application. http://sxsw.com/node/6469/
34. TSAI, J., KELLEY, P., DRIELSMA, P. H., CRANOR, L., HONG, J., AND SADEH, N. 2009. Who's viewed you? The impact of feedback in a mobile location-sharing application. In Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. ACM Press, New York, 2003-2012.
35. VANNOY, S. A. AND PALVIA, P. 2010. The social influence model of technology adoption. Comm. ACM53, 149-153.
36. WANG, B., BODILY, J., AND GUPTA, S. K. S. 2004. Supporting persistent social groups in ubiquitous computing environments using context-aware ephemeral group service. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'04). IEEE Computer Society, 287.
37. WANG, H., CHIN, A., AND WANG, H. 2011. Interplay between social selection and social influence on physical proximity in friendship formation. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Social Recommender Systems in Conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW'11). 1-8.
38. WASSERMAN, S. AND FAUST, K. 1994. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press.
39. XU, B., CHIN, A., WANG, H., AND WANG, H. 2011a. Using physical context in a mobile social networking application for improving friend recommendations. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Sensing, Networking, and Computing with Smartphones (PhoneCom'11). 1-8.
40. XU, B., CHIN, A., WANG, H., CHANG, L., ZHANG, K., YIN, F., WANG, H., AND ZHANG, L. 2011b. Physical proximity and online user behavior in an indoor mobile social networking application. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom'11). 1-10.
41. ZHU, L., CHIN, A., ZHANG, K., XU, W., WANG, H., AND ZHANG, L. 2010. Managing workplace resources in office environments through ephemeral social networks. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing. Springer, 665-679.