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15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE'06)
pp. 149-156
Co-Presence Communities: Using Pervasive Computing to Support Weak Social Networks
Jamie Lawrence, University of Southampton, UK
Terry R. Payne, University of Southampton, UK
David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
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Although the strongest social relationships feature
most prominently in our lives, we also maintain a multitude
of much weaker connections: the distant colleagues
that we share a coffee with in the afternoon; the
waitress at a our regular sandwich bar; or the ‘familiar
stranger’ we meet each morning on the way to work.
These are all examples of weak relationships which have
a strong spatial-temporal component but with few support
systems available. This paper explores the idea
of ‘Co-presence Communities’ - a probabilistic definition
of groups that are regularly collocated together -
and how they might be used to support weak social networks.
An algorithm is presented for mining the Copresence
Community definitions from data collected by
Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones. Finally, an example
application is introduced which utilises these communities
for disseminating information.
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Citation:
Jamie Lawrence, Terry R. Payne, David De Roure,
"Co-Presence Communities: Using Pervasive Computing to Support Weak Social Networks,"
wetice,
pp. 149-156,
15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE'06),
2006
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