Toward a mobile application for social sharing context

Abstract

Due to wireless and sensing technologies powerful in smartphone, a number of smartphone applications, a.k.a APPs. have combined social sharing mechanisms. This paper defines social sharing contexts on a social framework suitable to APPs. A tourism APP based on the sharing mechanisms is implemented to include social behavior for data sharing, while smartphone have supported various wireless technologies. Besides, smartphone as a hand-held device is hold by users so that various gestures with user hands are adaptive to handle the key features of sharing data between smartphones. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.