Paper Info
Title
CidadeSocial - An Application Software for Opportunistic and Collaborative Engagement of Urban Populations.
Abstract
The combination of mobile devices and easy access to the Internet enhances the spread of information coming from our day-to-day lives. People share all types of information such as events, opinions and problems in urban areas. Also, they can act as sensors by monitoring and sharing information about the demands made by inhabitants for urban changes on social media. Moreover, these platforms allow people to support each other - even strangers - through questions and answers, recommendations and indications. However, much of this kind of information is lost. Even social media (e.g. Facebook and Twitter) limit the spread of this flow of information up to the network borders, because their focus is on a relationship network. Consequently, the information does not reach people outside these networks. This paper describes an application software - named CidadeSocial – that allows inhabitants to share information according to their common interests. The application software exploits the geospatial location of the users to create a temporal social network, provides recommendations based on their profile and uses a gamification approach to encourage user engagement. Thus, we argue that CidadeSocial is a tool with potential to serve as an interface for engagement in improving the day-to-day life of cities and their inhabitants.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-030-11238-7_9
BiDU@VLDB
Field
DocType
Citations 
Mobile computing,Geospatial analysis,Information flow (information theory),World Wide Web,Social media,Social network,Computer science,Mobile device,Application software,Database,The Internet
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ana Clara Correa100.34
Eliel Roger200.34
Tiago Cruz de França300.34
José Orlando Gomes4458.39
Jonice Oliveira512338.01