Event-Based Mobile Social Networks: Services, Technologies, and Applications

Ahmedin Mohammed Ahmed, Tie Qiu, Feng Xia, Behrouz Jedari, Saeid Abolfazli
2014 IEEE Access  
Event-based mobile social networks (MSNs) are a special type of MSN that has an immanently temporal common feature, which allows any smart phone user to create events to share group messaging, locations, photos, and insights among participants. The emergence of Internet of Things and event-based social applications integrated with context-awareness ability can be helpful in planning and organizing social events like meetings, conferences, and tradeshows. This paper first provides review of the
more » ... vent-based social networks and the basic principles and architecture of event-based MSNs. Next, event-based MSNs with smartphone contained technology elements, such as context-aware mobility and multimedia sharing, are presented. By combining the feature of context-aware mobility with multimedia sharing in event-based MSNs, event organizers, and planners with the service providers optimize their capability to recognize value for the multimedia services they deliver. The unique features of the current event-based MSNs give rise to the major technology trends to watch for designing applications. These mobile applications and their main features are described. At the end, discussions on the evaluation of the event-based mobile applications based on their main features are presented. Some open research issues and challenges in this important area of research are also outlined. INDEX TERMS Mobile application, mobile social networks, mobile event guide, context-awareness, mobility, multimedia. 500 2169-3536 2014 IEEE. Translations and content mining are permitted for academic research only. Personal use is also permitted, but republication/redistribution requires IEEE permission. See http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/index.html for more information. VOLUME 2, 2014 A. M. Ahmed et al.: Event-Based MSNs: Services, Technologies, and Applications based social network that deal with two forms of nodes, actornodes and event-nodes, and two forms of arcs, link between actor-node and event-node and link between two event-nodes. FIGURE 2. Simple example of Nodes and Events with their connection mode in an event-based MSN. One significant area of investigation on event-based mobile social services concerns augmented group interaction and the behavior of groups in a discussion. Typically, in group communication contexts, spoken participation is viewed as the primary or dominant interaction medium, one that is often the target of modification as in, for example, Second Messenger [22] or Meeting Mediator [23] . Tin Can [24] system placed emphasis on the combinatory possibilities of text-based and verbal participation in a co-located group communication environment. It also focuses on enhancing the performative space of group interaction.
doi:10.1109/access.2014.2319823 fatcat:qranugverfgwrngukkyf64bjzy