Spontaneous Social Network: toward dynamic virtual communities based on context-aware computing

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Highlights：

• We propose Spontaneous Social Network (SSN), grouping people without former relation.

• The main contribution is the creation of communities based on multiple contexts.

• We develop a mobile application called Dino to evaluate SSN model.

• The experiments showed average of 84%/80% for sense of community/belonging.

• Other obtained results for SSN were 90% usefulness, 92% loyalty and 81% ephemerality.

摘要

•We propose Spontaneous Social Network (SSN), grouping people without former relation.•The main contribution is the creation of communities based on multiple contexts.•We develop a mobile application called Dino to evaluate SSN model.•The experiments showed average of 84%/80% for sense of community/belonging.•Other obtained results for SSN were 90% usefulness, 92% loyalty and 81% ephemerality.

论文关键词：Grouping mechanism,Virtual community,Social network,Context awareness,Mobile computing,Ubiquitous computing

论文评审过程：Received 9 November 2016, Revised 25 October 2017, Accepted 9 November 2017, Available online 10 November 2017, Version of Record 14 December 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.11.017