普适计算技术的发展极大地丰富和增强了人类获取数据的途径和能力,如何利用这些感知数据,理解人类的社会行为与活动,实现计算"以人为中心"并为社会服务的目标,是当前信息领域的重要问题.本文介绍了计算机科学领域的一个刚刚兴起的研究主题———社会感知计算.社会感知计算旨在通过人类生活空间日益部署的大规模多种类传感设备,实时感知识别社会个体的行为,分析挖掘群体社会交互特征和规律,辅助个体社会行为,支持社群的互动、沟通和协作.论文讨论了社会感知计算的概念、起源、模型和主要研究问题,综述了社会感知计算典型系统与应用、数据感知、行为与交互分析、社会理论与规律验证以及社会交互高效支持等方面的研究进展.
The advances of pervasive computing technologies significantly enhance the capabilities for data capture.Using the sensing data to understand human behavior,mobility,and activity,and ultimately help to solve social problems is a great challenge in the information era.This paper introduces a new emerging research topic in computer science—Socially Aware Computing.The new paradigm aims at leveraging the large-scale diverse sensing devices deployed in human daily lives to recognize individual behaviors,discover group interaction patterns,and support community communication and collaboration.The paper discusses the concept,origin,model,and research topics of Socially Aware Computing.It also reviews the current stage of the field in five aspects: system and application,data sensing,behavior and interaction analysis,social theory and law verification,and social interaction support.