Cellphone-enhanced Social Experience

Can cellphones improve people's social experience in real-life?

Observation

  1. People take phones with them
  2. Phones can store/exchange more information
  3. Multi-2-Multi communication is easy for phones

Why mobile social apps fail?

  1. They share too little info: users just see a bunch of people on the phone and start to chat about weather.
  2. They share too much info: users end up turn off every privacy option.

Our approach

  1. Users tag themselves
  2. Encrypt the info, so others can only check matching, not recover it.

Tag and tag list

  1. Contacts, music, Facebook profile, …
  2. Reduce input
  3. Increase matching probability
  4. User contributed tag list
  5. Location/service aware tag list

Privacy

  1. It's practically impossible to recover the information

Web UI

  1. Cross-platform UI is web
  2. HTML+AJAX

How to use

  1. Get the source code:
    svn checkout http://py4sea.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ py4sea
  2. Run the program:
    cd py4sea;python 4sea.py
  3. If the web browser is not open automatically, open it and go to http://localhost:8080/webui/
 
project/social.txt · Last modified: 2008/05/25 16:51 by jdliu
 
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