MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR LIVE MEETINGS

Michał Wrzeszcz; Jacek Kitowski

doi:10.7494/csci.2012.13.4.87

Authors

Michał Wrzeszcz AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics, Department of Computer Science, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow,
Jacek Kitowski AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Electronics, Department of Computer Science, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow,

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7494/csci.2012.13.4.87

Keywords:

social networks, social networking websites, mobile devices

Abstract

In this article, we present an idea of combining social networking websites and
modern mobile devices abilities to transfer social networking activity to a higher
level. Nowadays, these devices and websites are used to offer ability of remote
communication (phone calls, message exchange etc.), which potentially can be
used to notify people about meetings in the real world. Since the current social
network models do not provide enough information for such notification (social
networking websites are examples of social networks) a new social network model
that will be suitable for the above mentioned application is proposed and a new
social platform that base on mobile devices is introduced. This platform can
notify users when their friends are nearby. The paper presents the model and
the simulation that verifies the approach.