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From offline to online: connecting people with a mobile social networking application at a conference

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Chinese CHI '14: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Chinese CHI

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2592235.2592242

Published: 26 April 2014 Publication History

Abstract

People that we encounter and connect with at conferences, provide opportunities for extending our social networks from offline to online. How can users easily find and connect with the relevant people in the conference? We present Find & Connect, an application that combines proximity and homophily information. We conducted a user study and deployment of our application at the UbiComp 2011 conference, and discovered that most users found it useful for finding nearby people and making new connections. Studying the offline and online user behavior reveal that certain sessions are more conducive to greater offline and online interactions, and that users add contacts primarily due to proximity (i.e. they know each other in real life and have encountered before). These results can form the stepping stone to creating a user behavior model for offline and online.

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Arens-Volland ANaudet Y(2016)Personalized recommender system for event attendees2016 11th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP)10.1109/SMAP.2016.7753386(65-70)Online publication date: Oct-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/SMAP.2016.7753386

Index Terms

From offline to online: connecting people with a mobile social networking application at a conference
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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Chinese CHI '14: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Chinese CHI

April 2014

120 pages

ISBN:9781450328760

DOI:10.1145/2592235

Conference Chairs:
Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Georgia Institute of Technology & National University of Singapore
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Autodesk Research

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Arens-Volland ANaudet Y(2016)Personalized recommender system for event attendees2016 11th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP)10.1109/SMAP.2016.7753386(65-70)Online publication date: Oct-2016
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