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IWANN
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Outdoors Monitoring of Elderly People Assisted by Compass, GPS and Mobile Social Network
Abstract. We explore the use of mobile social network technology combined with modern mobile phone hardware as a platform for programming applications in the elder care area. An ap...
Roberto Calvo-Palomino, Pedro de las Heras Quir&oa...
IJMMS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Storied spaces: Cultural accounts of mobility, technology, and environmental knowing
When we think of mobility in technical terms, we think of topics such as bandwidth, resource management, location, and wireless networks. When we think of mobility in social or cu...
Johanna Brewer, Paul Dourish
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?
Twitter, a microblogging service less than three years old, commands more than 41 million users as of July 2009 and is growing fast. Twitter users tweet about any topic within the...
Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park, Sue B. M...
IMC
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Measuring the mixing time of social graphs
Social networks provide interesting algorithmic properties that can be used to bootstrap the security of distributed systems. For example, it is widely believed that social networ...
Abedelaziz Mohaisen, Aaram Yun, Yongdae Kim
NETWORK
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
WhozThat? evolving an ecosystem for context-aware mobile social networks
One of the most compelling social questions, which until now was left unanswered by current technology, is "Who's that?" This question is usually asked about a new ...
Aaron Beach, Mike Gartrell, Sirisha Akkala, Jack E...