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Encount'r: Exploring Passive Context-Awareness for Opportunistic Social Matching

Published:27 February 2016Publication History

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Mobile social matching applications are changing the way we meet new people. However, there are many open challenges associated with the design of systems that introduces people proactively without a specific user query, but instead when the opportunity arises. We present Encount'r, an opportunistic social matching system that implements passive context-awareness to unobtrusively inform people about relevant opportunities. Preliminary findings from a think aloud evaluation of both the concept and the designs are discussed and ongoing research efforts are presented.

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    CSCW '16 Companion: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion
    February 2016
    549 pages
    ISBN:9781450339506
    DOI:10.1145/2818052

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