
MoBiSoc Research Lab
The Mobile Bio-Social Research Lab at Cardiff University is a collection of researchers interested in topics related to mobile and social computing, human behaviour, networks and sociality. We're focused on the impact of functional developments of mobile devices, looking primarily at the smartphone-user relationship.
News
MoBiSoc Lives!
After a brief hiatus over winter, MoBiSoc has returned. Fewer cakes and a more focused approach, but the same mobile-bio-social computing based discussions and events
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GigaMobile
2014-12-31 - 2017-12-30
This project proposes a new paradigm for ultra-high capacity mobile networks by simultaneously and jointly addressing the bandwidth problem and the dynamic network management issues associated with device-to-device communications.
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Recognition
2010-09-01 - 2013-08-31
The Recognition project looked for innovative ways to autonomously provide and manage content relevant to the individual user. The project was inspired by the cognitive processes that humans exhibit for self-awareness. Examples incude the heuristics and cues that we subconsciously use everyday for rapid decision making and negotiating conflicting signals in physical and social situations.
Read on...Publications
- Noë, N., Whitaker, R. M., Chorley, M. J., & Pollet, T. V. (2016). Birds of a feather locate together? Foursquare checkins and personality homophily. Computers In Human Behavior, 58, 343–353. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.01.009Details
- Chorley, M. J., Colombo, G. B., Allen, S. M., & Whitaker, R. M. (2015). Human content filtering in Twitter: The influence of metadata. International Journal Of Human-Computer Studies, 74, 32–40. doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2014.10.001Details
- Turner, L. D., Allen, S. M., & Whitaker, R. M. (2015). Interruptibility prediction for ubiquitous systems: conventions and new directions from a growing field. Proceedings Of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp ’15)., 801–812. doi:10.1145/2750858.2807514Details
- Mordacchini, M., Passarella, A., Conti, M., Allen, S. M., Chorley, M. J., & Colombo, G. B. (2015). Crowdsourcing through Cognitive Opportunistic Networks. ACM Transactions On Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), 10(2), 1–29. doi:10.1145/2733379Details
- Turner, L. D., Allen, S. M., & Whitaker, R. M. (2015). Push or delay? Decomposing smartphone notification response behaviour. In Human Behavior Understanding (Vol. 9277, pp. 69–83). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24195-1_6Details
- Whitaker, R. M., Chorley, M. J., & Allen, S. M. (2015). New frontiers for Crowdsourcing: the Extended Mind. In 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (pp. 1635–1644). doi:10.1109/HICSS.2015.197Details
- Chorley, M. J., Whitaker, R. M., & Allen, S. M. (2015). Personality and location-based social networks. Computers In Human Behavior, 46, 45–56. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.038Details
Members
Professor Roger M. Whitaker
Dr Stuart M. Allen
Dr Martin J. Chorley
Dr Gualtiero Colombo
Liam D. Turner
Nyala Noë
Beryl Noë
Pete Sueref
Professor Christopher Jones
Professor Alun Preece
Professor Dave Marshall
Dr Matthew J. Williams
Dr Chris Gwilliams
Dr George Theodorakopoulos
Dr William Webberley
Dr Ian Cooper
Dr Joaquin Derrac
Dr Pete Burnap
Dr Steven Shockhaert
Matthew P. John