Questions researchers face include (i) how do ubiquitous computing systems or devices influence and assist in people's social performances? (ii) how do intelligent systems that take autonomous action influence people's sense of control and sense of self in social situations? and (iii) how does the interjection of computing into social spaces such as homes, cafes, parks, malls, and entertainment...

A. Chin and D. Zhang (eds.), Mobile Social Networking: An Innovative Approach, Computational Social Sciences, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-8579-7_2, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract The advances of pervasive computing technologies signifi cantly enhance the capabilities for data capture, processing, and usage. The combination of pervasive computing and social computing leads t...