Designing and Experimenting a Hybrid Social Network Made Up of People, Agents, and Sensors

The contribution of this position paper is twofold: the first one extends the use of social networking in the direction of allowing not only communications among persons but also human- machine interaction and machine to machine collaboration; the second contribution is the presentation of an experimental platform for large-scale testing of innovative mobile social networking applications, including the one described in the first part of the paper.