Social-Aware Applications - Study on Social Context Aware Applications: Exploring Potential Usages, Defining Requirements and Understanding Issues

Abstract

Social Networking Sites are becoming more and more important on people’s daily lives. Combined with the mobility of the user, social data bring unique opportunities and creates a new kind of “mobile social” applications. In this thesis, social awareness of mobile applications is investigated on both social and technical aspects including privacy. Along with the definition of social-awareness and privacy rules, a mobile social application called SenseMe is presented that adds social layer to opportunistic networks and converts regular mobile phones to social agents. The prototype application is implemented using JavaMe and peer-to-peer aspects were validated in a real life experiment, which shows that social-awareness does not requires powerful hardware with fully featured operating systems.