Title :
Facilitating Social Networking in Inner-City Neighborhoods
Author_Institution :
Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, Qld.
Abstract :
The success of new social networking systems for residents of inner-city neighborhoods depends on the software´s ability to animate and support meaningful interaction proximate users, to network serendipitous social encounters, and to seamlessly with the way interaction takes place in existing urban social networks
Keywords :
groupware; public administration; socio-economic effects; town and country planning; inner-city neighborhood; urban social network; pervasive computing; social networking systems; urban computing;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2006.305