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Semantics, sensors, and the social web: the live social semantics experiments

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Martin Szomszor,

Wouter Van den Broeck,

Harith AlaniAuthors Info & Claims

ESWC'10: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications - Volume Part II

Pages 196 - 210

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13489-0_14

Published: 30 May 2010 Publication History

Abstract

The Live Social Semantics is an innovative application that encourages and guides social networking between researchers at conferences and similar events. The application integrates data from the Semantic Web, online social networks, and a face-to-face contact sensing platform. It helps researchers to find like-minded and influential researchers, to identify and meet people in their community of practice, and to capture and later retrace their real-world networking activities. The application was successfully deployed at two international conferences, attracting more than 300 users in total. This paper describes the Live Social Semantics application, with a focus on how data from Web 2.0 sources can be used to automatically generate Profiles of Interest. We evaluate and discuss the results of its two deployments, assessing the accuracy of profiles generated, the willingness to link to external social networking sites, and the feedback given through user questionnaires.

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ESWC'10: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications - Volume Part II

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Department of Computer Science, Free University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, Amsterdem, The Netherlands
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Institute of Computer Science, FORTH and Computer Science Department, University of Crete, De Boelelaan 1081a, Heraklion, Greece
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School of Science and Technology, Department of Media Technology, Aalto University, De Boelelaan 1081a, Aalto, Finland
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Department of AI, Free University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081A, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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