Title
SPF: a middleware for social interaction in mobile proximity environments
Abstract
Smart interconnected devices are changing our lives and are turning conventional spaces into smart ones. Physical proximity, a key enabler of social interactions in the old days is not exploited by smart solutions, where the social dimension is always managed through the Internet. This paper aims to blend the two forces and proposes the idea of social smart space, where modern technologies can help regain and renew social interactions, and where proximity is seen as enabler for dedicated and customized functionality provided by users to users. A Social Proximity Framework (SPF) provides the basis for the creation of this new flavor of smart spaces. Two different versions of the SPF, based on different communication infrastructures, help explain the characteristics of the different components, and show how the SPF can benefit from emerging connection-less communication protocols. A first assessment of the two implementations concludes the paper.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICSE.2015.137
ICSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
social interaction middleware,mobile proximity environments,smart interconnected devices,conventional spaces,smart solutions,Internet,social smart space,social proximity framework,communication infrastructures,SPF,connection-less communication protocols
Social relation,Middleware,World Wide Web,Enabling,Computer science,Social dimension,Regression testing,Implementation,The Internet,Communications protocol
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2
0270-5257
978-1-4799-1934-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.48
14
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luciano Baresi12533172.62
Laurent-Walter Goix2293.23
Sam Guinea3102865.08
Valerio Panzica La Manna4757.29
Jacopo Aliprandi510.48
Dario Archetti610.48