Social Sensor FP7 project

Summer School on Social Media Modeling and Search

SocialSensor will organise in cooperation with CUBRIK the 2012 Summer School on Social Media Modeling and Search (SSMS 2012), on 10-14 September 2012 in Fira, Santorini, Greece. The summer school is aimed at PhD students, young researchers and practitioners interested in social media modeling and analysis, online social interaction analysis and relevant approaches and applications in prediction, search and visualization. Lectures include introductory and advanced courses by leading researchers from academia and industry, and will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of state-of-the-art research in these multi-disciplinary topics. SSMS 2012 is an ACM Chapter event of the EuroMM, the European Chapter of the ACM SIGMM.

Cooperation with FĂȘte de la musique Berlin

SocialSensor will cooperate with the FĂȘte de la musique Berlin event in terms of the SocialSensor Infotainment use case. The cooperation aims at the development of advanced social media analysis technologies that enhance the attendance experience and will start with user requirements gathering and analysis.

SocialSensor at WWW2012 EU projects track

SocialSensor was accepted for presentation at the WWW2012 EU projects track, 16-20 April 2012, Lyon. The paper is entitled "SocialSensor: Sensing User Generated Input for Improved Media Discovery and Experience", written by Sotiris Diplaris, Symeon Papadopoulos, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Ayse Goker, Andy Macfarlane, Jochen Spangenberg, Hakim Hacid, Linas Maknavicius and Matthias Klusch.

Exploitation event organised by CERTH

CERTH is organising an exploitation activity in its premises on 15th December 2012, where relevant to SocialSensor technologies will be presented to a large audience of companies, venture capitals and organisations.

ClustTour iPhone app

MK Group at CERTH has released an iPhone application for ClustTour. ClustTour mobile enables an intuitive exploration of the interesting landmarks and events for more than 30 cities worldwide, making use of automatic analysis methods on large amounts of tagged photos from Flickr.
The application is available for free on iTunes:
http://clusttour.gr/itunes

Thessaloniki Film Festival twitter questionnaire

SocialSensor, in cooperation with the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF), released a questionnaire to the TIFF staff, volunteers and twitter followers, in order to gather feedback for the user requirements of the Infotainment use case.

Workshop on Social Media Applications in News and Entertainment

SMANE 2012

Kick-off meeting

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