Alvin Chin

Member of Research Staff

Mobile Social Networking Group

Nokia Research Center

Beijing, China

 

 

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Welcome to Alvin's home page.  I joined Nokia Research Center in Beijing, China in July 2008 having completed my PhD in November 2008 in the Human Factors group of the Interactive Media Lab at the Dept of Computer Science, University of Toronto, working under the supervision of Mark Chignell.   Please see Job for more information on my CV and resume.  My research focus at Nokia Research Center is on Mobile Web 2.0 and mobile social networking and how the mobile phone can be more integrated within our offline (real) and online social networks which we call mobile social networking.      

 

My research objective is to bring social awareness to pervasive computing systems and applications so that they become easier to use and can assist in our daily lives. My research interests lie in social computing, computer-supported collaborative work, human-computer interaction, pervasive and mobile computing, semantic web, and context awareness.  Specifically, I’m interested in integrating social media with daily office tasks, identifying and building communities for social collaboration and social networking particularly in collaborative technologies such as blogs and tagging like del.icio.us, and inferring social context from the web and from the phone.  I'm also interested in creating recommendation systems based on social networks, and creating applications that use social networking for improving human-human communication and human-computer communication using mobile devices and the web.  My research is cross-disciplinary using techniques from social network analysis, sociology, computer science, data mining, psychology and human-computer interaction. 

 

Please feel free to explore my web site and my Nokia Research Center web page and contact me if you want to know more about me and my research work.

 

 

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