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--- at:urbiflock [2010/08/04 17:56] – * elisag
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-====== Urbiflock ======
+====== Mobile Social Networking ======
-==== What is Urbiflock? ====
-UrbiFlock is a framework sculpted for the development of //pervasive social network applications//: an emerging type of applications that enable spontaneous interactions of people by means of handheld devices (such as their cell phones). These applications exploit the colocation of a number of mobile devices in the proximity to enable social interaction //on the move//.
+===== Scripting Mobile Social Applications =====
+The recent profusion of mobile devices such as the iPhone and Android-powered smartphones has given rise to a new type of applications that exploit the physical location of users to help people interact //on the move//, so-called //mobile social networking// applications. Developing such highly distributed, location-dependent applications is a challenge.
+In this work we propose Urbiflock, a software platform for the development of mobile social applications running on Android phones interacting via wireless networks. The framework is built on the concept of flocks, a declarative representation of user groups. Flocks represent the user’s social network in terms of intensionally specified sets. To interact and exchange data with these sets the framework incorporates a tuple-based communication library.
+===== What is Urbiflock? =====
 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 “flocks”. A flock represents a loosely-defined group of users. A flock can be compared to a Facebook group (for example, a group of your old classmates), but it additionally allows for the definition of groups of proximate flockrs (for example, a group of all of your friends that are currently nearby).
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 Users can also build applications and plug them into the Urbiflock framework. Several core applications are currently available in the Urbiflock framework, such as flock creators and profile viewers. The framework also counts with two user applications //I rate you (IR8U)// that allows users to ask proximate users to rate them on a certain subject, and //Guanotes// that allows user to send message to each other.
-==== Terminology ====
+===== Terminology =====
   * Flockr: a user of the Urbiflock framework
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   * To flock: to become part of a group
-==== Demo ====
+===== Demo =====
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-==== Target Platforms ====
+===== Target Platforms =====
 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.
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 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.
-We have implemented a AWT UI interface for Urbiflock's deployment on HTC touch cruise phones running J2ME. In order to configure your HTC Touch device for our framework you can follow the instruction [[private:AmopHTC|here]].
+We have implemented a AWT UI interface for Urbiflock's deployment on HTC touch cruise phones running J2ME. In order to configure your HTC Touch device for our framework you can follow the instruction [[at:amophtc|here]].
+{{:uf:urbiflockonx10.jpg?160X190 |  Urbiflock running on a X10 mini }}
 We are currently working on an Android UI interface for Urbiflock's  deployment on a number of Android phones ( HTC Hero, Legend and Desire, and Sony Xperia X10 series).
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 The Urbiflock framework is available in the AmbientTalk distribution library under the frameworks/ folder. Visit  [[http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/|our google code repository]] to download the AmbientTalk distribution.
-==== Urbiflock architecture ====
+===== The Urbiflock framework architecture =====
 The architecture of the Urbiflock framework shown below is divided in three layers: applications, Urbiflock core, and Urbiflock infrastructure.
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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, and the service discovery and communication APIs to discover and communicate with nearby applications, respectively.
-==== Development ====
+===== Further Reading =====
-  * [[uf:todolist|Bugs and TODO List]]
+**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'Hondt. To appear in Mobile Computing and Applications Track at 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011), ACM, Taiwan, March 2011. ([[http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2010/vub-tr-soft-10-20.pdf|pdf]])
-  * [[uf:Design|Whiteboard Design]]
-  * [[:uf:urbiflock_design.pdf| Design Diagram]]
-  * To think about:
-    * [[uf:persistence|Persistence]]: saving/loading framework and application data and prefs.
-    * [[uf:privacy|Privacy]]: restrict access of applications to a user's flocks