Social Awareness in Pervasive Communities for Collaborative Work Christopher LIMA 1 , Mário ANTUNES, Diogo GOMES and Rui AGUIAR Instituto de Telecomunicações Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Abstract. Future pervasive environments will take into consideration physical and digital social relations. Nowadays it is important use to collective intelligence, where the interpretation of context information can be harnessed as input for context-aware applications, especially for group collaboration. The use of collective intelligence represents new possibilities but also new challenges in terms of collective information for adaptability and personalization in intelligent environments. This paper presents a collaborative context-aware framework focusing on social matching capabilities for session formation in collaborative activities. Keywords. Pervasive computing, social matching, collaboration. Introduction With the advent of Web 2.0, various social networking sites emerged in the present scenario of the internet (E.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.). The information retrieved from these social sites can be useful for pervasive or ubiquitous systems, where the changes of environment and/or context are important to offer powerful ways of working and communicating. Ambient intelligence has matured greatly, mainly due to mobile devices and sensors evolution. Combining ambient intelligence with social networks creates a pervasive environment in which real-world and virtual social information can be utilized as context information. The context refers to a set of conditions (e.g. temporal, presence, location) that may be used by applications to dynamically adapt its behaviour. Environments such as smart spaces are aware of context, enabling users to access computing resources to perform their activities [1]. In addition, several of these activities in smart spaces may involve multiple users collaborating in common tasks. The CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) field has various types of applications for group tasks including conference, development and workflow environments. However, context-aware CSCW applications research has only reached recently pervasive systems. The trend is towards the use of collective intelligence, where interpretation of context information related to the group relations should be harnessed as input for such collaborative applications in these environments. 1 Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Aveiro - Campus Universitário de Santiago, P-3810- 193, Aveiro – Portugal; Email: cviana@av.it.pt. Workshop Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments J.A. Botía and D. Charitos (Eds.) © 2013 The Author(s). This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License. doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-286-8-110 110