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==== What is Urbiflock? ==== | ==== What is Urbiflock? ==== | ||
- | Urbiflock is a Facebook-like application framework for mobile devices | + | UrbiFlock is a framework sculpted for the development of //pervasive social network applications//: |
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+ | Urbiflock is a Facebook-like application framework for mobile devices. As in Facebook, users that join Urbiflock can meet other users and interact with them. For example users may broadcast announcements to each other, they can browse one another’s profile, launch interactive polls, etc. The framework takes care of managing a user’s social networks, called | ||
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+ | Users can also build applications and plug them into the Urbiflock | ||
==== Terminology ==== | ==== Terminology ==== | ||
- | * Flock: a group of proximate users | + | * Flockr: a user of the Urbiflock framework |
- | * Flockr: a user of the urbiflock framework | + | * Flock: a group of users |
* To flock: to become part of a group | * To flock: to become part of a group | ||
- | ==== Modules | + | ==== Demo ==== |
- | * [[uf: | + | |
- | * [[uf: | + | |
- | * [[uf: | + | |
- | * isNearby: physical proximity | + | |
- | * isFriend: static encoding of friendship relationships | + | |
- | * doesProfileMatch: | + | |
- | * combinators: | + | |
- | * [[uf: | + | |
- | * [[uf: | + | |
- | * [[uf: | + | |
- | A flock is defined as a list of references to ' | + | < |
+ | <object width=" | ||
+ | </ | ||
- | Predefined Flocks: | + | ==== Target Platforms ==== |
- | * friend flockrs: isFriend | + | The Urbiflock framework has been written in the AmbientTalk language. As such, no configuration is required to be able to quickly script new applications on it once AmbientTalk is running on the target platform. |
- | * nearby flockrs: isNearby | + | |
- | * nearby friend flockrs: isFriend & isNearby | + | |
- | WhiteBoard Drawings: | + | AmbientTalk runs on a regular J2SE Java Virtual |
- | * [[uf: | + | Machine supporting version 1.3 or higher, Java 2 micro edition (J2ME) platform, under the connected device configuration (CDC), and Android Platform version 1.6 or higher. |
- | ==== Architecture ==== | + | We have implemented a AWT UI interface for Urbiflock' |
- | An ad hoc RETE-network. Events are triggered by: | + | |
- | * discovery: '' | + | |
- | * profile changes: '' | + | |
- | * friend changes: '' | + | |
- | These events | + | We are currently working on an Android UI interface for Urbiflock' |
- | ==== Applications ==== | + | The Urbiflock framework is available in the AmbientTalk distribution library under the frameworks/ folder. Visit [[http://code.google.com/ |
- | * [[uf: | + | |
- | * [[uf:app_viewer|Application Viewer]]: a viewer and editor to view existing applications and install/delete them. | + | |
- | * [[uf: | + | |
- | * [[uf: | + | |
- | * [[uf: | + | |
- | * [[uf: | + | |
- | ==== Target Platforms | + | ==== Urbiflock architecture |
- | * UrbiFlock will work on any computer | + | |
- | * We are currently testing our framework on HTC touch cruise pda' | + | The architecture of the Urbiflock framework shown below is divided in three layers: applications, |
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+ | The application layer includes the API of an " | ||
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+ | * [[uf: | ||
+ | * [[uf: | ||
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+ | There are also several user applications in the framework: | ||
+ | * [[uf: | ||
+ | * [[uf: | ||
+ | * [[uf: | ||
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+ | The Urbiflock' | ||
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+ | * [[uf: | ||
+ | * [[uf: | ||
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+ | * [[uf: | ||
+ | * [[uf:proximities|Characteristic Functions]]: " | ||
+ | * [[uf: | ||
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+ | The infrastructure layer consists of three low-level abstractions on which the framework core is based: a RETE engine which orchestrates the flock composition, | ||
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+ | ===== Further Reading ===== | ||
- | ==== Development ==== | + | **Flocks: Enabling Dynamic Group Interactions in Mobile Social Networking Applications**. E. Gonzalez Boix, A. Lombide Carreton, C. Scholliers, T. Van Cutsem, W. De Meuter, T. D' |
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- | ==== To think about ==== | ||
- | * [[uf: | ||
- | * [[uf: |
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