CenceMe: Injecting Sensing Presence into Social Network Applications using Mobile Phones (Demo Abstract)

The near overnight mass adoption of social networking portals, such as Facebook and MySpace, is the latest chapter in the story of people’s willingness to embrace technology that allows them to better connect with each other, following in the wake of instant messaging services, personal web pages and even email. We conjecture the next step in this progression will come from on-going research into emerging forms of people-centric sensing systems (e.g., [3] [2]). Our research in this area has lead us to develop the CenceMe system [4] which uses sensor data gathered using mobile consumer devices (e.g., cell phones) to learn about the everyday activities of the general population. CenceMe transparently makes useful inferences from this data and supports both the self-consumption and social sharing of this data.