Abstract—In an academic conference, it is difficult to find people
that share similar research interests with you, and it is also a
chore to add them into your personal online social network for
later communication. Aiming at helping the conference attendees
better organize their schedule and expand their social network,
we designed and developed Find & Connect where we used
location and encounters, together with the conference basic
services, all through a web user interface, in order to get the
homophily and physical interactions between users, and then to
base these information for recommending new contacts to users.
To demonstrate the usefulness of Find & Connect, we conducted
a field trial at the UbiComp 2011 conference. Results show that
users tended to consider historical physical encounter
information to be the most important when they wanted to know
someone or add other users as contacts, and that homophily
works as a factor in users' decision to add contacts.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 citeulike:13896086
%A Chin, Alvin
%A Xu, Bin
%A Yin, Fangxi
%A Wang, Xia
%A Wang, Wei
%A Fan, Xiaoguang
%A Hong, Dezhi
%A Wang, Ying
%B Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW), 2012 32nd International Conference on
%D 2012
%I IEEE
%K conference ubicomp
%P 79--87
%R 10.1109/icdcsw.2012.56
%T Using Proximity and Homophily to Connect Conference Attendees in a Mobile Social Network
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icdcsw.2012.56
%X Abstract—In an academic conference, it is difficult to find people
that share similar research interests with you, and it is also a
chore to add them into your personal online social network for
later communication. Aiming at helping the conference attendees
better organize their schedule and expand their social network,
we designed and developed Find & Connect where we used
location and encounters, together with the conference basic
services, all through a web user interface, in order to get the
homophily and physical interactions between users, and then to
base these information for recommending new contacts to users.
To demonstrate the usefulness of Find & Connect, we conducted
a field trial at the UbiComp 2011 conference. Results show that
users tended to consider historical physical encounter
information to be the most important when they wanted to know
someone or add other users as contacts, and that homophily
works as a factor in users' decision to add contacts.
%@ 978-1-4673-1423-7
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abstract = {{Abstract—In an academic conference, it is difficult to find people
that share similar research interests with you, and it is also a
chore to add them into your personal online social network for
later communication. Aiming at helping the conference attendees
better organize their schedule and expand their social network,
we designed and developed Find \& Connect where we used
location and encounters, together with the conference basic
services, all through a web user interface, in order to get the
homophily and physical interactions between users, and then to
base these information for recommending new contacts to users.
To demonstrate the usefulness of Find \& Connect, we conducted
a field trial at the UbiComp 2011 conference. Results show that
users tended to consider historical physical encounter
information to be the most important when they wanted to know
someone or add other users as contacts, and that homophily
works as a factor in users' decision to add contacts.}},
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author = {Chin, Alvin and Xu, Bin and Yin, Fangxi and Wang, Xia and Wang, Wei and Fan, Xiaoguang and Hong, Dezhi and Wang, Ying},
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booktitle = {Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW), 2012 32nd International Conference on},
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keywords = {conference ubicomp},
month = jun,
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posted-at = {2015-12-31 04:00:41},
priority = {2},
publisher = {IEEE},
timestamp = {2018-03-19T12:40:48.000+0100},
title = {{Using Proximity and Homophily to Connect Conference Attendees in a Mobile Social Network}},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icdcsw.2012.56},
year = 2012
}