Meet researcher in the real world using the ConAR: Context-aware researcher

Abstract

In this paper, we focused on a research on a Location-Based Social Network Service to increase social interactions among people who are engaging in research and development. Since existing many of location-based social network services have only provided information of regions and social relations of users have targeted an unspecific majority of groups, they could not have active interactions, compared to users of online communities who have particular use purposes. ConAR what we designed to get over these weaknesses, aims at researches to academically exchange with others and it enables them to have social interactions with people of the same interests by helping them select discussion topics and decide assignment places simply and on impulse. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.