Tangibility in social networks
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The popularity of social network services and their extension in mobile environments raises privacy and usability issues. Indeed, it is difficult to establish a link between real locations or situations and virtual information such as a user’s location or context. NFCSocial is a mobile application which tackles with this difficulty. By using proximity sensor technologies such as NFC to interact with federated social network systems, we want to introduce tangibility in these systems and to offer a more intuitive, comprehensive experience to their users.
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