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Social Serendipity: Mobilizing Social Software

Published: 01 April 2005 Publication History

Abstract

The Serendipity system senses a social environment and cues informal interactions between nearby users who donýt know each other, but probably should. The system uses Bluetooth hardware addresses to detect and identify proximate people and matches them from a database of user profiles. We show how inferred information from the mobile phone can augment existing profiles, and we present a novel architecture for instigating face-to-face interaction designed to meet varying levels of privacy requirements. Finally, we discuss features that respond to experience in an on-going user study involving 100 subjects.

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                      cover image IEEE Pervasive Computing
                      IEEE Pervasive Computing  Volume 4, Issue 2
                      April 2005
                      94 pages

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                      IEEE Educational Activities Department

                      United States

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                      Published: 01 April 2005

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                      1. Bluetooth technology
                      2. mobile computing
                      3. smart phones
                      4. social software

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