1st IEEE international workshop on communication, collaboration and cocial networking in pervasive computing environments PerCol 2010: Message from the workshop chairs

The rapid rise of online social communities has created a new paradigm for personal networking. In a logical - and rapid progression - many social communities are now going mobile, using smart phones or other wireless devices instead of the PC. A 2006 report from ABI Research titled “Mobile Social Communities” says that the mobile social community numbers around 50 million users globally and that by 2011 the number will reach 174 million. In combination with further pervasive computing technologies mobile and pervasive social networks will have a high impact on the forms of communication. coordination of actions and sharing information and presence status among users. Both in enterprises and the private sphere, pervasive communication and collaboration will soon be adopted as a means of easy sharing of information and providing extended presence and awareness of collaboration participants. Merging pervasive social networking and collaboration will certainly create new and innovative forms of virtual togetherness.