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Paper: Extending Mobile Social Software With Contextual Information

Posted by Fredrik | Filed under Papers

Abstract
This article points out how mobile contextual information can enhance social networking tasks through mobile social software. Since the mobile phone is considered a personal belonging by most people, the context of the mobile phone is treated as the context of its user. The contextual information of the mobile phone can enhance and make social networking tasks easier to perform on the go. The article shows that vital communicative and social information can be extracted from four types of mobile contextual information: physical, computational, time and user context. This article also covers the issues concerning personal integrity and security when social softwares can pinpoint or map user behavior through contextual information.

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Permalink | June 9th, 2008

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