Title :
Designing and Experimenting a Hybrid Social Network Made up of People, Agents and Sensors
Author :
Patrikakis, Charalampos Z. ; Anadiotis, Angelos-Christos ; Santi, Paolo ; Blefari-Melazzi, Nicola
Abstract :
The contribution of this position paper is twofold: the first one extends the use of social networking in the direction of allowing not only communications among persons but also human-machine interaction and machine to machine collaboration; the second contribution is the presentation of an experimental platform for large-scale testing of innovative mobile social networking applications, including the one described in the first part of the paper.
Keywords :
Internet; man-machine systems; social networking (online); human-machine interaction; hybrid mobile social networking; large-scale testing; machine collaboration; sensors; Educational institutions; Humans; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Sensor systems; Social network services;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Houston, TX, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9266-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1930-529X
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134239
