NFCSocial: Social Networking in Mobility through IMS and NFC

Abstract

In our article, we present NFCSocial, a mobile application prototype which uses the near field communication (NFC) technology to ease the update of presence information on federated communication systems and social networks. We discuss some technical choices we made in order to use contextual information retrieved via NFC in our application and to connect to an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network using a converged HTTP/SIP Java application server.