Background: Australians in rural and remote areas live with far poorer health outcomes than
those in urban areas. Telehealth services have emerged as a promising solution to narrow …

The emerging field of social signal processing can benefit from a theoretical framework to
guide future research activities. The present article aims at drawing attention to two areas of …

As pervasive computing meets social networks, there is a fast growing research field called
pervasive social computing. Applications in this area exploit the richness of information …

Location restrictions in Mobile Social Networks are often used to realize the notion of places
as well as for proximity-based friend or interest matching. In this work, we extend this by the …

With the increased prevalence of advanced mobile devices (the so-called “smart” phones),
interest has grown in mobile social ecosystems, where users not only access traditional Web …

Abstract Pervasive Social Computing is a novel collective paradigm, derived from pervasive
computing, social media, social networking, social signal processing, etc. This paper …

With the continuous emergence of smart portable devices, like TabletPC or smartphones,
crowdsensing is becoming an active research topic. While exploiting the wisdom of the …

Today's online social networking applications (eg, Face-book, Twitter, Last. Fm) allow users
that are socially close to each other (ie, users with shared interests) to participate in the …

Social workflows pervade peoples׳ everyday life. Whenever a group of persons works
together on a challenging or multifaceted task, a social workflow begins. Unlike traditional …

Mobile social networking applications enable end-users to interact on the move. Current
applications model user groups as simple lists which have to be manually enumerated. This …