Paper Info
Title
Lessons Learned from Online Social Networking of Physical Things
Abstract
Social networking is a core part of the global online experience. The Web 2.0 has been transformed into a social Web, extending the social capabilities of users. A big challenge for the Web is to become ubiquitous, blended with the everyday life of people. The Pervasive Web would be effectively enabled when physical things are seamlessly connected to the Web, offering real-world services to users. In a previous work, we examined the feasibility of utilizing existing online social networking platforms, to create a social smart home that promotes sharing of sensor and household devices between family members. In this paper, we present some early experiences obtained from developing two real-world social applications, the first for environmental monitoring in a farm and the second for increasing energy awareness by sharing electricity consumption information between friends. Through these two deployments, we demonstrate the potential benefits of giving a social texture to pervasive applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/BWCCA.2011.24
BWCCA
Keywords
Field
DocType
social network,real-world social application,global online experience,real-world service,physical things,pervasive web,existing online social network,social smart home,social texture,online social networking,social capability,social web,mashups,environmental monitoring,logic gate,web servers,smart home,web of things,ubiquitous computing,greenhouses,logic gates,social networking
Web development,Mashup,Web of Things,World Wide Web,Internet privacy,Social network,Social web,Computer science,Online participation,Social Semantic Web,Social computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.67
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Kamilaris120615.70
Diomidis Papadiomidous2171.10
Andreas Pitsillides399895.02