Aiding Social Interaction via a Mobile Peer to Peer Network

Author

Nagowah, Soulakshmee D.

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Eng. Dept., Univ. of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius

fYear

2010

fDate

10-16 Feb. 2010

Firstpage

130

Lastpage

135

Abstract

Statistics have shown that young people in Mauritius have the tendency to stay single for longer. The number of marriages registered in year 2008 has declined by 3.7% compared to 2007. One of the possible reasons behind this is that they tend to focus much on their career and their work. They barely have time to socialise and eventually find it hard to find lifetime partners. This paper proposes the design of an adaptive mobile social application using Bluetooth technology (BDATE) that aims at aiding social interaction between Mauritians using mobile phones. BDATE notifies users when people they would like, are in nearby proximity. A prototype has been implemented and evaluated.

Keywords

Bluetooth; mobile computing; peer-to-peer computing; social sciences computing; statistics; Bluetooth technology; mobile peer to peer network; social interaction; statistics; Application software; Bluetooth; Message service; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Paper technology; Peer to peer computing; Personal digital assistants; Pervasive computing; Mobile social software; matchmaking algorithm; peer-to-peer architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Society, 2010. ICDS '10. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Maarten

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5805-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDS.2010.30

Filename

5432811