IN recent time, two complimentary Internet based research areas are emerging: social computing and cloud computing. On the one hand, social computing empowers individual users with relatively low technological sophistication to use the web to engage in social interactions, contribute their expertise and share their content, experiences and opinions. On the other hand, cloud computing offers eve...

INTRODUCTION We are interested in designing mobile social computing systems for the next billion users. Our aim is to create systems that are appropriate (and appropriable) within their social, cultural, infrastructural, economic, and political settings. In this paper, we discuss our emerging work on mobile applications and the social computing approach that underlies it. We note the growing in...

The study of social systems shows that there is a relationship of mutual influence between social connections and individual behavior, known as homophily. In this work, we developed a methodology to allow the analysis of interests of groups of users in Twitter network, based on automatic community detection and tweets ranking. The techniques presented reveal evidences that the presence of commu...

We aim to explore the inherent social qualities around food consumption and the potential role of social systems in the kitchen. We present a prototype called FoodApp that allows a group of friends to share each other’s dinnertime activities. This system is informed by prior work in domestic computing, social computing and technology probes design. The main features of the system are to support...

The paper is concerned with the question of how the emergence of ubiquitous computing influences organizations in terms of changing business processes and social aspects of employees’ work. The overview and critique of recent publications from the transaction costs and social implications perspectives is made on three levels of analysis (individual, group and organisation) and conclusions are d...

changes, computing technology and applications have evolved quickly over the past decade. They now go beyond personal computing, facilitating collaboration and social interactions in general. As such, social computing, a new paradigm of computing and technology development, has become a central theme across a number of information and communication technology (ICT) fields. It has become a hot t...

grid computing is a term referring to the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains to reach a common computational platform. mobile computing is a generic word that introduces using of movable, handheld devices with wireless communication, for processing data. mobile computing focused on providing access to data, information, services and communications anywhere an...

Purpose of paper: This viewpoint discusses the emerging IT platform of Cloud Computing and discusses where and how this has developed in terms of the collision between internet and enterprise computing paradigms – and hence why cloud computing will be driven not by computing architectures but more fundamental ICT consumption behaviours. Design/methodology/approach: The approach has been based u...

There is a continual growth in the use of social computing within a breadth of business domains; such as marketing, public engagement and innovation management. Software engineering research, like other similar disciplines, has recently started to harness the power of social computing throughout the various development phases; from requirements elicitation to validation and maintenance and for ...