Constructing a face-to-face friend-making platform using beacon-based micro-location information

Abstract

With respect to rapid changing trends of digitalization, the Smartphone plays an important role as intermediary devices for the development of mobile applications (hereinafter the “Apps”) to serve the growing needs of multifarious purposes in daily life. As a result, the convenience and functionality of modern Apps are gradually improved to fit the need of human behavior. For college students, it's important to learn to access academic knowledge in school, but it's more important to learn the way to strengthen good interpersonal relations with others. Interpersonal relation represents a close association among people in many aspects, mostly the love affair, is significant and attractive to young college students. In this study, an innovative friend-making app, named “Gamble”, is developed. Users are able to discover or been discovered according to various matching criteria. We take the advantages of the Beacon-based micro-location and the IOT (Internet of Things) technologies to facilitate the location-aware dating platform and realize the need for face-to-face social relations for college students.