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Authors:
Sergey Balandin
Ian Oliver
Sergey Boldyrev
Keywords: social networks for mobile devices, smart spaces; M3; supporting distributed R&D projects.
Abstract:
This paper proposes the social network solution that has been designed to fit equally well for use at mobile devices, PCs and even other types of consumer electronics. This solution is targeted to become a core element of the personal knowledge space and the design has be been done on top of M3 smart space. Target of this paper is to improve and to expand the understanding of the Smart Spaces concept by the R&D community. Through the identification of key properties based on an analysis of evolving trends brought to us by the great convergence in the ICT industry. Based on that we show how this trend will affect adoption of Smart Spaces. It is especially important to understand how Smart Spaces can change the whole services ecosystem and the role that mobile and other types of user surrounding devices will play. The Smart Space concept can be described as a permanent robust infrastructure to store and retrieve information of various types from a broad spectrum of different environment participants. This concept can provide better user experience by allowing a user to bring flexibly to the new devices and access all the information in the multi device system from any device. Based on that the resulting social network solution will be able to pre- and post-process the collected information and perform efficient reasoning over and organization of the data. Another key advantage of the proposed social network is that it is primary targeted to support professional social communications within a geo-distributed teams working on the same project. For that the solution proposes a flexible and easily extendable set of additional services, such as a variety of conference call and virtual meeting services with logging service, sharable whiteboard, automatic maintenance of action point lists and calendars and so on. As a result the service provides users with completely new experience.
Pages: 141 to 149
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2010. Used with permission.
Publication date: September 5, 2010
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2679