Title :
Towards a Smart Campus with Mobile Social Networking
Author :
Yu, Zhiwen ; Liang, Yunji ; Xu, Bukan ; Yang, Yue ; Guo, Bin
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xi´´an, China
Abstract :
With the development of wireless communication, the popularity of smart phones, the increasing of social networking services, mobile social networking has become a hot research topic. The characteristics of mobile devices and requirements of services in social environments raise a challenge on building a platform for mobile social services. In this paper, we elaborate a flexible system architecture based on the service-oriented specification to support social interactions in campus-wide environments. In the client side, we designed a mobile middleware to collect social contexts such as the proximity, the cell phone log etc. The server backend, on the other hand, aggregates such contexts, analyses social connections among users and provides social services to facilitate social interactions. A prototype of mobile social networking system is deployed on campus, and several applications are implemented based on the proposed architecture to demonstrate the effectiveness of the architecture.
Keywords :
educational computing; human computer interaction; middleware; mobile computing; service-oriented architecture; smart phones; social aspects of automation; social networking (online); campus-wide environments; cell phone log; mobile devices; mobile middleware; mobile social networking system; mobile social services; proximity; service-oriented specification; smart campus; smart phones; social contexts; social interactions; social networking services; system architecture; wireless communication; Context; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Sensors; Servers; Social network services; Mobile Social Networking; Smart Campus; Social Interaction;
Conference_Titel :
Internet of Things (iThings/CPSCom), 2011 International Conference on and 4th International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1976-9
DOI :
10.1109/iThings/CPSCom.2011.55