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E-SmallTalker: A Distributed Mobile System for Social Networking in Physical Proximity
2010
2010 IEEE 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Small talk is an important social lubricant that helps people, especially strangers, initiate conversations and make friends with each other in physical proximity. However, due to difficulties in quickly identifying significant topics of common interest, real-world small talk tends to be superficial. The mass popularity of mobile phones can help improve the effectiveness of small talk. In this paper, we present E-SmallTalker, a distributed mobile communications system that facilitates social
doi:10.1109/icdcs.2010.56
dblp:conf/icdcs/YangZDCXL10
fatcat:z7xqzccwx5cdzd7knntrh3vtvq