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Socially Aware Computing: Concepts, Technologies, and Practices

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The advances of pervasive computing technologies significantly enhance the capabilities for data capture, processing, and usage. The combination of pervasive computing and social computing leads to a new emerging research topic called ‘socially aware computing’. This new paradigm aims to leverage the large-scale diverse sensing devices that can be deployed in human daily lives to recognize individual behaviors, discover group interaction patterns, and support communication and collaboration. Smartphones, which are equipped with a variety of sensors and are popular around the world, bring new opportunities for socially aware computing. In this chapter, we introduce the definition of socially aware computing, discuss the main research challenges, and present our work of implementing socially aware computing by using smartphones.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2012CB316400), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60903125, 61222209), and the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (No. NCET-09-0079).

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    Zhiwen Yu & **ngshe Zhou

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    Daqing Zhang

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Yu, Z., Zhou, X. (2014). Socially Aware Computing: Concepts, Technologies, and Practices. In: Chin, A., Zhang, D. (eds) Mobile Social Networking. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8579-7_2

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