Mobile Social Networking: An Innovative Approach

✍ Scribed by Alvin Chin, Daqing Zhang (auth.), Alvin Chin, Daqing Zhang (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Series: Computational Social Sciences
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The use of contextually aware, pervasive, distributed computing, and sensor networks to bridge the gap between the physical and online worlds is the basis of mobile social networking. This book shows how applications can be built to provide mobile social networking, the research issues that need to be solved to enable this vision, and how mobile social networking can be used to provide computational intelligence that will improve daily life.

With contributions from the fields of sociology, computer science, human-computer interaction and design, this book demonstrates how mobile social networks can be inferred from users' physical interactions both with the environment and with others, as well as how users behave around them and how their behavior differs on mobile vs. traditional online social networks.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Socially Aware Computing: Concepts, Technologies, and Practices....Pages 9-23
Ephemeral Social Networks....Pages 25-64
Social Behavior in Mobile Social Networks: Characterizing Links, Roles, and Communities....Pages 65-78
Mobile Social Service Design for Special Context....Pages 79-107
Exploiting Personal and Community Context in Mobile Social Networks....Pages 109-138
Enhancing Mobile Social Networks with Ambient Intelligence....Pages 139-163
Data Analysis on Location-Based Social Networks....Pages 165-194
Towards Trustworthy Mobile Social Networking....Pages 195-235
Conclusions....Pages 237-243

✦ Subjects

Complex Networks;Computer Communication Networks;Communications Engineering, Networks;Communication Studies;Complexity;User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction