Advancement in mobile computing and smartphone proliferation has enabled mobile devices to support a richer range of services besides calls and texting. Recently there has been a lot of focus on developing human centric mobile social applications to perform collaborative social activities for mobile users in highly distributed environment, such as photo and information sharing, and proximity-ba...

The rapid advances in wireless communications and networking have given rise to a number of emerging heterogeneous wireless and mobile networks along with novel networking paradigms, including wireless sensor networks, mobile crowdsourcing, and mobile social networking. While offering promising solutions to a wide range of new applications, their widespread adoption and large-scale deployment a...

Mobile social networks are rapidly becoming an important new domain showcasing the power of mobile computing systems. These networks combine mobile location information with social networking data to enable fully context-aware environments. This paper proposes SocialFusion, a framework to support context-aware inference and recommendation by fusing together mobile, sensor, and social data. We i...

Social networking sites (SNS) have greatly transformed the way in which people communicate and exchange various kinds of information. Although prior studies have extensively examined the antecedents of mobile data service (such as mobile news) adoption, there is little understanding on what has occurred when people pursue better-quality information from their peers via wireless networks and mob...

Mobile social networks are rapidly becoming an important new domain showcasing the power of mobile computing systems. These networks combine mobile location information with social networking data to enable fully context-aware environments. This paper proposes SocialFusion, a framework to support context-aware inference and recommendation by fusing together mobile, sensor, and social data. We i...

In China, the number of college students using mobile phone based messaging and social networking applications like WeChat is increasing rapidly. However, there has been minimal research into the addictive nature of these applications and the psychological characteristics associate with their excessive use. There is also no published scale available for assessing excessive use of WeChat and sim...

The convergence of social networking andmobile computing is expected to generate a new class of applications, called Mobile Social Networking (MSN) applications, that will be of significant importance for the coming years. Indeed,MSN enhances the capabilities ofmore traditional Online Social Networking (OSN) to a great extent by enabling mobile users to benefit from opportunistically created so...

This paper presents work in progress regarding utilization of social network information for mobile applications. Primarily a number of challenges are identified, such as how to mine data from multiple social networks, how to integrate and consolidate social networks, and how to manage semantic information for mobile applications. The challenges are discussed from a semantic Web perspective usi...