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With mobile devices and wireless technology becoming pervasive at conferences, conference attendees can use location-based mobile social networking applications such as Foursquare and Gowalla to share their location and content with others. How to use the mobile devices and the indoor positioning technology to help the conference participants enhance the real-world interactions of people and improve efficiency during the conference? In this paper, we report our work in Nokia Find & Connect (NF&C) to solve this problem where we use location and encounters, together with the conference basic services, all through a mobile UI. To demonstrate the usefulness of the NF&C system, we conducted a field trial at the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing and Autonomic and Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC 2010). Results show that NF&C can help the conference participants enhance the real-world interactions of people and improve efficiency at a conference effectively.
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We would like to thank all the attendees who participated in the Find & Connect trial at the UIC/ATC 2010 conference and provided much constructive feedback, as well as our colleagues who helped with the development and operations of the trial from the Find & Connect team.
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Chang, L. et al. (2011). Enhancing the Experience and Efficiency at a Conference with Mobile Social Networking: Case Study with Find and Connect. In: Park, J., Jin, H., Liao, X., Zheng, R. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-centric Computing 2011 and Embedded and Multimedia Computing 2011. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 102. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2105-0_27
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