Keynote Speech of PhoneCom 2011

Summary form only given. The advances of pervasive computing technologies significantly enhance the capabilities for data capture, processing, and usage. The combination of pervasive computing and social computing leads to a new emerging research topic Socially Aware Computing. This new paradigm aims to leverage the large-scale diverse sensing devices that can be deployed in human daily lives to recognize individual behaviors, discover group interaction patterns, and support communication and collaboration. Smartphones that are equipped with variety of sensors and popular around the world, bring new opportunities for socially aware computing. In this talk, we introduce the origin and definition of socially aware computing, and present our work of realizing socially aware computing by using smartphones.