Location-Aware Mobile Social Networks

The SocialFusion Project in Context-Aware Mobile Social Networks

The SocialFusion Project fuses together location-aware mobile networks, sensor networks, and context-aware social networks to enable a new generation of exciting mobile applications that are personalized to your location, activities, preferences, and friendship relationships. Some examples of applications we have built include SocialFlicks, which combines an iPhone user's personal location with the user's Facebook profile to play video on a nearby screen customized to the preferences of that user, and a context-aware music jukebox, which plays songs you want to hear when you walk into a room. The SocialFusion project in mobile social networks at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Department of Computer Science seeks to conduct ground-breaking research in mobile systems, social networks, networking privacy/anonymity, data mining, mobility, user interfaces, mobile cloud infrastructure, and context-aware computing.

Here are slides from a talk Prof. Han gave "Towards Context-Aware Computing Via the Mobile Social Cloud" at the June 2010 Microsoft Research Networking Summit on Mobile Cloud Computing in Seattle, Washington.

Aaron Beach, Mike Gartrell, Richard Han, "Social-K: Real-Time K-Anonymity Guarantees for Social Network Applications", IEEE International Workshop on SECurity and SOCial Networking (SESOC), 2010, pp. 600-606.
Aaron Beach, Mike Gartrell, Richard Han, "Solutions to Security and Privacy Issues in Mobile Social Networking," cse, vol. 4, pp.1036-1042, 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2009 (Workshop on the Social Mobile Web 2009, associated with IEEE SocialCom 2009).
Gartrell M., Beach A., Ramanarayanankrishnaniyer J., Xing X., Lv Q., Han R., Mishra S., Seada K., "Integrating Wikipedia, Facebook, and Other Personal Online Context into Collaborative E-Brainstorming,"
Workshop on Collective Intelligence In Organizations (CIorg): Tools and Studies, 2010, associated with GROUP 2010.

Publications:

Aaron Beach, Mike Gartrell, Xinyu Xing, Richard Han, Qin Lv, Shivakant Mishra, Karim Seada, "Fusing Mobile, Sensor, and Social Data To Fully Enable Context-Aware Computing", Eleventh ACM Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), 2010, pp. 61-66.
Mike Gartrell, Xinyu Xing, Qin Lv, Aaron Beach, Richard Han, Shivakant Mishra, Karim Seada, "Enhancing Group Recommendation by Incorporating Social Relationship Interactions", GROUP 2010.
Aaron Beach, Mike Gartrell, Richard Han, "q-Anon: Rethinking Anonymity for Social Networks", in Proceedings of the IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), August 2010, pp. 185-192. doi:10.1109/SocialCom.2010.34.
Aaron Beach, Mike Gartrell, Sirisha Akkala, Jack Elston, John Kelley, Keisuke Nishimoto, Baishakhi Ray, Sergei Razgulin, Karthik Sundaresan, Bonnie Surendar, Michael Terada, and Richard Han, "WhozThat? Evolving an Ecosystem for Context-Aware Mobile Social Networks", IEEE Network, July/August 2008, pp. 50-55.

Technical Reports/Theses:

Aaron Beach, Mike Gartrell, Richard Han, Shivakant Mishra, "Rethinking Anonymity for Social Networks", Technical Report CU-CU-1065-10, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, June 2010.
Aaron Beach, Mike Gartrell, Richard Han, Shivakant Mishra, "CawbWeb: Towards a Standardized Programming Framework to Enable a Context-Aware Web", Technical Report, CU-CS-1063-10, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, March 2010.
Mike Gartrell, Aaron Beach, Jai Ramanarayanankrishnaniyer, Xinyu Xing, Richard Han, Qin Lv, Shivakant Mishra, Karim Seada, "Integrating Wikipedia and Facebook Context into Collaborative E-Brainstorming," Technical Report CU-CS-1073-10, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, September 2010.

Aaron Beach, Mike Gartrell, Xinyu Xing, Richard Han, Qin Lv, Shivakant Mishra, Karim Seada, "SocialFusion: Context-Aware Inference and Recommendation By Fusing Mobile, Sensor, and Social Data", Technical Report CU-CS-1059-09, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, December 2009.
Aaron Beach, Mike Gartrell, Baishakhi Ray, and Richard Han, "Secure SocialAware: A Security Framework for Mobile Social Networking Applications", Technical Report CU-CS-1054-09, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, June 2009.
Mike Gartrell, "SocialAware: Context-Aware Multimedia Presentation Via Mobile Social Networks", M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, December 2008.