Nudge Nudge
A Proximity Based Social Application
Armir Bujari
[email protected]
Nicola Miotto [email protected]
Smartphone Era
Mobile devices
Social Applications
Date
Low cost
Growing popularity
Becoming the dominant
interconnection mode
Making people “closer”
Geolocation
Friends
Meet
New Opportunities
Easy spreading of Social Apps
Real-time data exchange
Hardware “eyes & ears” for
more powerful applicationse to error
Matchmaker
Locate
Geolocalization
- Global Positioning System
- MAC sniffing + Skyhook WiFi Service
- GSM + Cell Tower Triangulation
- Similarity vector
- Matching
computation
- Proximity analysis
Reverse
Geocoding
(Google API)
Nudge Nudge
Affinity
Affinity &
& Vicinity
Vicinity closeness
closeness
Automatically find and connect people in
proximity
- Geographical proximity recognition
- Profile mining & matching
- Short-range wireless chat
Profile
Automatic profile vector
mining from Facebook
CHECK-IN!
Meet
Meeting Request
Instant (almost) push
notification
P2P Chat room
Bluetooth short-ray
connection
or
WLAN Infrastructure
Future Works
- More informative
profile similarity score
- Multi-user chat room
- More pervasive SN
integration
Università degli Studi di Padova – Web site http://www.unipd.it
UCLA CSD Network Research Laboratory
High
Performance
Internet
Group
Dipartimento di Scienze
Matematiche,
Fisiche
e Naturali
– Facoltà di Informatica
TCP Westwood Web Page - http://www.cs.ucla.edu/NRL/hpi/tcpw