Beschreibung:
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
1. Introduction / Alvin Chin and Daqing Zhang -- 2. Socially aware computing: concepts, technologies, and practices / Zhiwen Yu and Xingshe Zhou -- 3. Ephemeral social networks / Alvin Chin -- 4. Social behavior in mobile social networks: characterizing links, roles, and communities / Martin Atzmueller -- 5. Mobile social service design for special context / Huanglingzi Liu, Wei Wang, Dong Liu, Hao Wang and Ying Liu -- 6. Exploiting personal and community context in mobile social networks / Daqing Zhang, Zhiyong Yu, Bin Guo and Shu Wang -- 7. Enhancing mobile social networks with ambient intelligence / Kevin Doolin, Nick Taylor, Micheal Crotty, Mark Roddy, Edel Jennings, Ioanna Roussaki and David McKitterick -- 8. Data analysis on location-based social networks / Huiji Gao and Huan Liu -- 9. Towards trustworthy mobile social networking / Zheng Yan, Valtteri Niemi, Yu Chen, Peng Zhang and Raimo Kantola -- 10. Conclusions / Alvin Chin and Daqing Zhang