The Live Social Semantics Application: a Platform for Integrating Face-to-Face Presence with On-Line Social Networking

Wouter Van den Broeck, Ciro Cattuto, Alain Barrat, Martin Szomsor, Gianluca Correndo, and Harith Alani. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Communication, Collaboration and Social Networking in Pervasive Computing Environments (PerCol'10), 2010.

Abstract

We describe a novel application that integrates real-world data on the face-to-face proximity of individuals with their identities and contacts in on-line social networks. This application was successfully deployed at two conference gatherings, ESWC09 and HT2009, and actively used by hundreds of people. Personal profiles of the participants were automatically generated using several Web 2.0 systems and semantic data sources, and integrated in real-time with face-toface proximity relations detected using RFID-enabled badges. The integration of these heterogeneous data sources enables various services that enhance the experience of conference attendees, allowing them to explore their social neighborhood and to connect with other participants. This paper describes the architecture of the application, the services we provided, and the results we achieved in these deployments.

PDF: http://isiosf.isi.it/~cattuto/papers/lss_percol2010.pdf

BIBTEX:

@inproceedings{Van-den-Broeck:2010lh,
  title = {The Live Social Semantics Application: a Platform for Integrating Face-to-Face Presence
 with On-Line Social Networking},
  booktitle = {First International Workshop on Communication, Collaboration and Social Networking
 in Pervasive Computing Environments (PerCol'10)},
  month = {April},
  author = {{Van den Broeck}, Wouter and Cattuto, Ciro and Barrat, Alain and Szomszor, Martin and Correndo, Gianluca and Alani, Harith},
  year = {2010},
  url = {http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18371/},
  keywords = {Live Social Semantics, SocioPatterns}
}