Social and mobile technologies offer users unprecedented opportunities for communicating, interacting, sharing, meaning-making, content and context generation. And, these affordances are in constant flux driven by a powerful interplay between technological innovation and emerging cultural practices. Significantly, also, they are starting to transcend the everyday lifeworlds of users and permeat...

Social platform services have transformed the lifestyles of individuals and the entire information and communication technology (ICT) ecosystem. The growth of the social networking market and the evolution of social networking sites (SNSs) have promoted a new wave of social network applications such as social network games (SNGs). SNGs are online or mobile games played through social networking...

The purpose of this study was to research the new emerging technology of mobile health, the use of mobile fitness apps to share one’s workout with their Twitter social network, the workout tweets and the individualities of the Tweeters. 70,748 tweets from mobile fitness application Endomondo were processed using an online tweet collection application and a customized JavaScript to determine asp...

Jesús Friginal, Jérémie Guiochet, Marc-Olivier Killijian. Towards a Privacy Risk Assessment Methodology for Location-Based Systems. 10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MOBIQUITOUS), Dec 2013, Tokyo, Japan. 131, pp.748-753, 2013, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineer...

Introduction One of the most intriguing new social phenomena brought forth by advances in information technology is the vast amplification of the power of word-of-mouth. With the help of the Internet, wireless networking and mobile telephony, today’s citizens and consumers form a bewildering array of technology-mediated communities where they exchange opinions and experiences on companies, prod...

Perhaps the most dramatic Information Society development witnessed today is the wide availability of social networking capabilities for the users, orchestrated through the wide variety of virtual multimedia communication tools. Mobile and networked interactive multimedia applications are employed to promptly capture or create user-centered content that after being processed and enriched with t...

The work here presented introduces a next generation context-aware architecture for social networking multimedia distribution. It enhances the Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) and the Evolved MBMS (E-MBMS) systems by adding users’ situation knowledge on their assessments allowing Mobile Operators to offer personalized services delivered over optimized networks. Furthermore, it evol...

• Design and formal verification of component-based complex systems (distributed, mobile, real-time and hybrid systems) and application to mechatronics, automobile, aeronautics and telecommunications industrial problems. • Semantic-based systems architectures and applications: Ontology-based systems architectures and application to e-learning systems, semantic integration of data and services, ...

Mobile technology has turned the traditionally collective activity of enjoying music into an often private one. New technologies such as wireless ad hoc networks have the potential to re-connect listeners who are now separated by headphones. We report on a field study of Push!Music, a novel mobile music sharing system. Push!Music allows both manual and automatic sharing of music between users t...