Micro-Blog: Sharing and Querying Content Through Mobile Phones and Social Participation

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Micro-Blog: Sharing and Querying Content Through Mobile Phones and Social Participation (2008)

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by Shravan Gaonkar , Jack Li , Romit Roy Choudhury , Landon Cox , Al Schmidt

Venue:	In Proc. ACM 6th Int’l Conf. on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS ’08
Citations:	124 - 13 self

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Gaonkar08micro-blog:sharing,
    author = {Shravan Gaonkar and Jack Li and Romit Roy Choudhury and Landon Cox and Al Schmidt},
    title = {Micro-Blog: Sharing and Querying Content Through Mobile Phones and Social Participation},
    booktitle = {In Proc. ACM 6th Int’l Conf. on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MOBISYS ’08},
    year = {2008}
}

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Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the impacts of distributed content sharing (Wikipedia, Blogger), social networks (Facebook, MySpace), sensor networks, and pervasive computing. We believe that significant more impact is latent in the convergence of these ideas on the mobile phone platform. Phones can be envisioned as people-centric sensors capable of aggregating participatory as well as sensory inputs from local surroundings. The inputs can be visualized in different dimensions, such as space and time. When plugged into the Internet, the collaborative inputs from phones may enable a high resolution view of the world. This paper presents the architecture and implementation of one such system, called Micro-Blog. New kinds of application-driven challenges are identified and addressed in the context of this system. Implemented on Nokia N95 mobile phones, Micro-Blog was distributed to volunteers for real life use. Promising feedback suggests that Micro-Blog can be a deployable tool for sharing, browsing, and querying global information.

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querying content mobile phone social participation nokia n95 mobile phone different dimension high resolution view distributed content sharing local surroundings deployable tool recent year sensory input real life use application-driven challenge social network people-centric sensor collaborative input mobile phone platform sensor network pervasive computing new kind global information

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