Serendipity

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Serendipity

• HCSI 2004 Fall

Ji Ryang Chung Hyun Dong Kim Jongyoon Choi
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What ?

• Serendipitous matchmaking system

• Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the
  day or the hour.
• Matthew 25-13

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Why ?

• Breaking the boundary of strangers are strangers

• Limitation of Familiar Stranger
• Rarely use context information
• Limitation of From Context to Content
• Little interaction between users
• Limitation of match.com mobile
• Weekly alert
• No location context aware
• No facial recognition
• Funology

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How ?

• Mobile client and server with five modules

Mobile Console
Admin Console
Facial Pattern Recognition
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Device ?

• J2ME MIDP based cellular phone

• FCC E-911
• Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of
  1999
• Limitation of PDA
• Rich network resource
• Device requirement
• Most phone manufacturers offerings
• MIDP 2.0 SDK

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Special ?

• Facial pattern recognition

• Set of "standardized face ingredients
• Derived from statistical analysis
• Combination of standard faces