E-Shadow: Lubricating Social Interaction Using Mobile Phones

—In this paper, we propose E-Shadow, a distributed mobile phone-based local social networking system. E-Shadow has two main components: (1) Local profiles. They enable EShadow users to record and share their names, interests, and other information with fine-grained privacy controls. (2) Mobile phone based local social interaction tools. E-Shadow provides mobile phone software that enables rich social interactions. The software maps proximate users’ local profiles to their human owners and enables user communication and content sharing. We have designed and implemented E-Shadow on mobile phones. In our E-Shadow system, we allow users to perform dynamic and layered information publishing, making use of interpersonal relevance. Our system also provides a mechanism to help users perform direction-driven localization of an E-Shadow and match it with its owner. Experiments on real world Windows Mobile phones and large-scale simulations show that our system disseminates information ef�...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: ICDCS
• Authors: Jin Teng, Boying Zhang, Xinfeng Li, Xiaole Bai, Dong Xuan
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, ICDCS 2011, Interaction Tools, Mobile Phone Software, Scale Simulations