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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Social applications"”.
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Chorus : end user programming of social applications
… an end-user programming tool for building mobile social applications, much in the spirit of HyperCard¹ but reimagined for modern cloud-based applications on smart phones. Chorus innovates in two dimensions: first, by supporting collaboration via "social datatypes" that define a shared structured …
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Creating a cliché library for social applications
… a platform for the end-user development of web applications. It reduces the complexity of web development by encapsulating common functionality across the web into a library of clichés. Users select clichés that represent core concepts in their application, specify various configuration …
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Utilising Contactless Communications for the next Generation of Mobile Ubiquitous Applications.
… plays an important role in current mobile applications and services whether it is social applications, gaming, entertainment or mobile commerce, the global market for LBS is projected to reach £13.26 billion by 2015 and a subscriber base of 1.24 billion. It is the well proven winning …
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Provable and practical location privacy for vehicular and mobile systems
… statistics, insurance pricing, location-based social applications), which promise tremendous benefits to users. Unfortunately, most such systems pose a serious threat to the location privacy of users because they track each individual's path. A question that arises naturally is how can we …
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Privacy engineering for social networks
… I enumerate several privacy problems in online social networks (OSNs) and describe a system called Footlights that addresses them. Footlights is a platform for distributed social applications that allows users to control the sharing of private information. It is designed to compete with the …
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Social motion : mobile networking through sensing human behavior
… surprisingly high-level information about social interactions. The goal of this thesis is to define the components of a framework for sensing social context with mobile devices. We describe several sensing technologies - including infrared transceivers, radio frequency scanners, and …
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Social Media in Higher Education: Building Mutually Beneficial Student and Institutional Relationships through Social Media.
<p>Social applications such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have driven the public growth of Web 2.0. Universities and colleges are using social media to reach student prospects, keep contact with current students and alumni, and provide a mechanism for group collaboration and interaction in the …
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A privacy-preserving personal sensor data ecosystem
… the registry server, authorize third-party applications to analyze data once it reaches their Personal Data Store, and finally, visualize the result of such analysis within a mobile phone or web browser. A number of example quantified-self and social applications are built on top of this …
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A framework for cooperative localization in ultra-wideband wireless networks
… and many other commercial, military, and social applications. In wireless networks, accurate information about an agent's location can give meaning to observed data and facilitate the agent's interactions with its surroundings and neighbors. Determining the location of one or more agents, …
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Virtual Private Milieus : sharing our digital aura through social and physical proximity
People are quite good at establishing a social style and using it in different communications contexts, but they do less well when the communication is mediated by computer networks. It is hard to control what information is revealed and how one's digital persona will be presented or interpreted. …
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Generalizations of Threshold Graph Dynamical Systems
Dynamics of social processes in populations, such as the spread of emotions, influence, language, mass movements, and warfare (often referred to individually and collectively as contagions), are increasingly studied because of their social, political, and economic impacts. Discrete dynamical …
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Behavior Sharing Social Network Application: Cimee
… iPhone application. We propose a location-sharingsocial network mobile application called Cimee, which combines the advantages of highcoverage, high speed Internet, diverse sensors on the smartphone, and a very large number ofsmartphone users. Research has been done about how mobile applications …
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Investigating Asymmetric Collaboration and Interaction in Immersive Environments
… such asymmetric settings have been examined in social platforms, questions surrounding collaborative view dimensionalities in data-driven decision-making and interaction from non-immersive devices remain under-explored. A crucial inquiry arises: although presenting a consistent 3D virtual world …
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Political Applications of Systems Theory in the Twentieth Century: From Cybernetic Control to Spontaneous Emergence
… a variety of complex phenomena, both natural and social. The science behind systems theory emerged from wartime engineering projects, and was promoted by major philanthropic organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation. Theoretical concepts from the nascent systems sciences, including the …
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Echoes of wisdom - Regenerative practice as professional practice
… considerable discourse around developing the social applications and implications of the discipline in group work (Second Line). However, despite the naming and framing of the personal (First Line) as a key part, perhaps even the core, of Regenerative Practice (Regenesis, 2021), there is a gap …