Mobilis - Pervasive Social Computing using XMPP

• mobile real-time collaboration
• Android application development
• mobile social networking
• XMPP
• location-based and proximity-based services

Social Computing, especially online social networks like Facebook, Google Plus or Twitter are now killer applications for the mobile Internet. But the potential of social apps on smart phones and other pervasive devices in the user’s environment is not yet fully exploited. Smart phone sensors as well as sensors and actuators in the natural surroundings of a person could be used to derive comprehensive knowledge about the physical environment and nearby people and their behavior, social links and activities. Social and collaborative apps taking advantage of this rich awareness are called Pervasive Social Computing applications. They allow their users to interact seamlessly with devices and other people in their natural surroundings.
The project Mobilis focuses on use cases with collaboration in real-time like friend finder (proximity search), shared editing of drawings and texts or location-based multiplayer games. The goal of the Mobilis project is to ease the development of apps for Pervasive Social Computing especially for non-commercial developers who often lack the resources necessary to develop a complex pervasive application. Mobilis provides an infrastructure based on the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) including basic building blocks for collaborative mobile applications. This comprises authentication and discovery of devices, reliable delivery of messages in the mobile scenario, support for service-based protocol engineering and dynamic deployment of server components for apps as well as support for session mobility.

Project leader:

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Dr. h. c. Alexander Schill

Project staff:

Dipl.-Inf. Sven Bendel
Dipl.-Inf. Robert Lübke
Dr.-Ing. Daniel Schuster
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Springer

Resources:

• Mobilis project presentation
• PerCol workshop
• Mobilis on Github
• Demo video robot remote control with Mobilis
• Demo video emulation scenario run with XHunt

Recent publications:

1. Daniel Schuster, Alberto Rosi, Marco Mamei, Thomas Springer, Markus Endler, Franco Zambonelli:
Pervasive Social Context - Taxonomy and Survey;
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST); Vol. 4, No. 3; 2013

2. Daniel Schuster, Robert Lübke, Sven Bendel, Thomas Springer, Alexander Schill:
Mobilis - Comprehensive Developer Support for Building Pervasive Social Computing Applications;
Communication Software Award Demo at Networked Systems Conference (NetSys); Stuttgart, Germany; 2013

3. István Koren, Daniel Schuster, Thomas Springer:
Session Mobility for Pervasive Apps Using XMPP;
4th International Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol), San Diego, CA, USA; 2013

4. Daniel Schuster, Danny Kiefner, Robert Lübke, Thomas Springer, Pascal Bihler, Holger Mügge:
Step by Step vs. Catch Me If You Can - On The Benefit of Rounds in Location-based Games;
3rd IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol); Lugano, Switzerland; 2012

5. Sven Bendel, Daniel Schuster:
Providing Developer Support for Implementing Collaborative Mobile Applications;
3rd IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol); Lugano, Switzerland; 2012

6. Daniel Schuster, István Koren, Thomas Springer, Dirk Hering, Benjamin Söllner, Markus Endler, Alexander Schill:
Creating Applications for Real-Time Collaboration with XMPP and Android on Mobile Devices;
Handbook of Research on Mobile Software Engineering: Design, Implementation and Emergent Applications; Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan; IGI Global; 2012

7. Markus Endler, Alexandre Skyrme, Daniel Schuster, Thomas Springer:
Defining Situated Social Context for Pervasive Social Computing;
Second IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol); Seattle, WA, USA; 2011

8. Robert Lübke, Daniel Schuster, Alexander Schill:
A Framework for the Development of Mobile Social Software on Android;
The 3rd International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE); Los Angeles, CA, USA; 2011

9. Robert Lübke, Daniel Schuster, Alexander Schill:
Location-based Group Formation in Mobile Social Networks;
Second IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol); Seattle, WA, USA; 2011

10. Robert Lübke, Daniel Schuster, Thomas Springer, Nikolas Jansen, Alexander Schill:
Smart Mobile Apps: Eine Dienstplattform zur Entwicklung mobiler sozialer Anwendungen auf Basis von XMPP;
Springer, Berlin; 431-446; Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Stephan Varclas; Kapitel 28; 12/2011

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Student Assignments:

1. Thomas Walther:
Emulation von Anwendungsszenarien für Pervasive Social Computing;
Diploma thesis; 28.03.2013; Supervising tutor: Daniel Schuster

2. Marc Löchner:
web-basierte mobile Clients für XMPP-basierte Echtzeit-Kollaboration;
Bachelor thesis; 12.10.2012; Supervising tutor: Daniel Schuster

3. Istvan Koren:
Session Mobility XMPP-basierter mobiler eCollaboration-Dienste;
Diploma thesis; 07.06.2012; Supervising tutor: Daniel Schuster

4. Danny Kiefner:
Dynamisches Deployment XMPP-basierter Dienste für Mobile Social Apps;
Diploma thesis; 09.03.2012; Supervising tutor: Daniel Schuster

5. Christian Magenheimer:
Untersuchung von Kommunikationsprotokollen für Dienstumgebungen in mobilen Anwendungen auf Basis von Android;
Diploma thesis; 05.01.2012; Supervising tutor: Robert Lübke

6. Oscar Albrecht:
MobileHealthCenter - A case Study forMobile Social Networks in Health Care;
Master thesis; 20.09.2011; Supervising tutor: Thomas Springer

7. Nicolas Jansen:
Entwicklung eines Web-Gateways für mobile Kollaborationsdienste;
Diploma thesis; 21.07.2011; Supervising tutor: Daniel Schuster

8. Danny Kiefner:
Runden-basierte Orts-bezogene Spiele auf mobilen Endgeräten;
Großer Beleg; 03.05.2011; Supervising tutor: Daniel Schuster

9. Robert Lübke:
Ein Framework zur Entwicklung mobiler Social Software auf Basis von Android;
Diploma thesis; 28.03.2011; Supervising tutor: Daniel Schuster

10. Robert Lübke:
Orts-basierte Gruppenbildung für Mobile Social Networks;
Großer Beleg; 25.10.2010; Supervising tutor: Daniel Schuster

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