Event-based mobile social network services

A BST R A C T There are an increasing number of mobile applications that use contextual data to provide their service, but few use the wide range of data available to the device to full effect. Looking beyond individual user context to sources such as the user’s social network, mobile applications can be developed that provide a service to both the individual and the wider social group. We first present a platform that uses the detection of events to try to interpret individual and group context. We introduce three mobile applications that use this platform to provide a service back to the individual and the social group attending an event.