Comealong: Empowering experience-sharing through social networks

Abstract

In this paper we present a social platform that empowers real-life social experiences by using the crowd to help people discover interesting events around a particular location and make the best of the actual experience. We demonstrate how current systems cover only partially the social and individual motivations on deciding and teaming up for events, and propose i) a system of implicit and explicit incentives that rewards intention and experience sharing within circles based on friendship or interests and ii) a discovery algorithm that combines the importance of coming along with friends with the personal interests to recommend events. The resulting platform has been applied to generic events as well as domain-specific ones such as shows in movie theaters.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CollaborateCom 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collaborative Computing
Subtitle of host publication	Networking, Applications and Worksharing
Pages	175-180
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2012.250638
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	8th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2012 - Pittsburgh, PA, United States Duration: 14 Oct 2012 → 17 Oct 2012

Conference

Conference	8th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2012
Country	United States
City	Pittsburgh, PA
Period	14.10.12 → 17.10.12

Keywords

Experience sharing
recommender systems
social networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications

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Comealong : Empowering experience-sharing through social networks. / Valeri, Beatrice; Baez, Marcos; Casati, Fabio.

CollaborateCom 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. 2012. p. 175-180 6450905.

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Valeri, B, Baez, M & Casati, F 2012, Comealong: Empowering experience-sharing through social networks. in CollaborateCom 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing., 6450905, pp. 175-180, 8th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2012, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 14.10.12. https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2012.250638

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