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Mobile Communities – Current Status and Challenges

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Virtual Communities, Social Networks and Collaboration

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The current progress in mobile and collaborative technologies (MCT) has the potential to radically change the shape and practice of daily living. The combined use of integrated sensors, networks, and smartphones can fill in the information access gap existing between stationary and mobile workplaces. Moreover, mobile technology can have a positive impact by removing barriers related to geographical and temporal constraints. Among the most important issues that need to be considered are adequate hardware, adaptive communication infrastructures, appropriate software services, location and context awareness, as well as user profiling and interaction. So far, in most cases, only isolated aspects of community systems, for example, technological aspects or services, have been discussed in the literature. In this chapter, we will aim to provide an integrated overview of different technological as well as some social approaches to realize community systems and identify common components.

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  1. Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany

    Volkmar Schau, Kathrin Kirchner & Wilhelm R. Rossak

  2. Navimatix GmbH, Jena, Germany

    Christian Stolcis

  3. University of Applied Sciences Jena, Jena, Germany

    Christian Erfurth

  4. Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Darmstadt, Germany

    Gerald Eichler

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Schau, V., Kirchner, K., Stolcis, C., Erfurth, C., Eichler, G., Rossak, W.R. (2012). Mobile Communities – Current Status and Challenges. In: Lazakidou, A. (eds) Virtual Communities, Social Networks and Collaboration. Annals of Information Systems, vol 15. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3634-8_12

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