Supporting Social Networks by Event-Driven Mobile Notification Services
Mobile terminals, e.g. mobile telephones, make a silent shift in our information access paradigm. While sitting in front of computer screen we are likely to follow a traditional client-pull path to find what we need. Mobile users, in general, are not keen
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Abstract. Mobile terminals, e.g. mobile telephones, make a silent shift in our information access paradigm. While sitting in front of computer screen we are likely to follow a traditional client-pull path to find what we need. Mobile users, in general, are not keen on typing queries on small keyboard and read comprehensive reports on mini screens. The mobile users, want the system to inform them when something important has happened or is going on. Following the mobile users' expectations information services should offer event driven instant messaging available in subscription mode. However, many of events happening around us involve and affect more than one person and are interesting not only to an individual but to a group or community. Such a group sharing the same or overlapping notifications create a natural social network. In this paper there is a discussion of application architecture and functionality issues of mobile notification services in the light of its social implications. The background for discussion is composed of currently developing applications e.g. virtual obituary notice and mobile price comparison service.
1 Introduction It is a difficult task to describe universal profile of a mobile system user and his expectations. It comes from the fact that various applications offer different forms of interaction among users and interaction between user and computer system. However, one may notice that mobile system users use their terminals mainly to support other planned activities, e.g. they access information system in order to find the best route to go. Desktop system users more intently focus on information retrieval. I believe it is not only a matter of screen size and more comfortable keyboard when a desktop computer is compared to mobile phone, because a substantial group among mobile users is provided with a notebook which makes the comfort of their work compatible with office work. The difference may come from the fact that in many dynamic situations moving mobile system users cannot be focused only on information retrieval and keep their eyes on screen for long. But mobile terminal remains a great tool for instant notification. Mobile terminals, e.g. mobile telephones, make a silent shift in our information access paradigm. While sitting in front of a computer screen we are likely to follow *
This research was partially supported by the grant 91-439/BW.
R. Meersman, Z. Tari, P. Herrero et al. (Eds.): OTM 2007 Ws, Part I, LNCS 4805, pp. 398–406, 2007. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
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traditional client-pull path to find what we need. Mobile users, in general, are not keen on typing queries on small keyboard and read comprehensive reports on mini screens. The mobile users, want the system to inform them when something important has happened or is going on. In order to correspond to mobile users' expectations information services should offer event driven instant messaging available in subscription mode
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