Mobile social network is essentially relational rather than attribute based on the unit analysis the individual but structures that consist of at least two social entities and the links among them. Search a friend in mobile social network profile matching two users comparing their personal profiles and conflicts with users growing privacy concerns about disclosing the personal profile to comple...

As a rapidly growing social-networking generation enters colleges and global workforces, college instructors and IT managers worldwide inevitably face a critical issue of how to better educate this emerging population who could be rarely separated, even in classroom settings, from wireless networks and mobile technology. Drawing from the notion of tasktechnology fit and various e-learning liter...

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 describes SocialDining, a system that fuses mobile and social data to power novel contextaware recommendation services that provide recommendatio...

The Mobile Web promises a new age of anytime, anywhere information access to billions of users across the globe. However, the Mobile Internet represents a challenging information access environment, particularly from a search standpoint. In this paper we present two visual interfaces for improved mobile search. First, we present SearchBrowser, a map-based interface that offers richer end-user i...

This paper outlines the findings of a research project intended to facilitate the learning of health professionals across work-based and formal learning contexts by means of mobile technology. The focus of the educational approach was on the use of digital mobile media, and particularly mobile networking technologies to support social learning practices of professionals, i.e., nurses, in margin...

As the Internet evolved, social networks (such as Facebook) have bloomed and brought together an astonishing number of users. Mashing up mobile phones and sensors with these social environments enables the creation of people-centric sensing systems which have great potential for expanding our current social networking usage. However, such systems also have many associated technical challenges, ...

Opportunistic Mobile Social Network (MSN) is a kind of Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) in which nodes are mobile with social characteristics. Users in such network carry data, move and forward it to others for information dissemination. To enable efficient data routing in opportunistic MSNs, the social metrics of users, such as mobility pattern, social centrality, community and etc. are leveraged ...

Organizations are increasingly exploring the business opportunities brought about by social media applications. The ubiquitous access to these applications or their mobile versions (i.e., mobile apps) through smart phones makes them powerful. Understanding how individuals use social media applications to interact and to share information for decision making will help organizations better levera...

Internet of Things (IoT) invasions a future in which digital and physical entities (e.g., mobile devices, wearable devices) can be linked, by means of appropriate information and communication technologies, to enable a whole new class of applications and services. In this paper, we study the dissemination of content over a mobile social network, which has become an attractive proxy for investig...

Sensor-equipped mobile devices have allowed users to participate in various social networking services. We focus on proximity-based mobile social networking environments where users can share information obtained from different places via their mobile devices when they are in proximity. Since people are more likely to share information if they can benefit from the sharing or if they think the i...