We introduce the concept of cyber-physical-social-mediated communication (CPS-C) and analyze why CPS-C is better than pure cyber-mediated communication for two popular applications: mobile social networks and mobile crowd sensing. CPS-C utilizes its unique characteristics (i.e., cyber-physical synchronization, human intelligence, and physical displacement) to bring benefits, including natural boundary of information exposure, tangible interaction, targeting receivers on the fly, decentralization, and piggybacking. As a result, energy efficiency and user experience are improved. We highlight the existence of human-machine intelligence in the communication process, which has rarely been addressed.

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网络-物理-社会-中介通信

我们介绍了网络-物理-社会中介通信 (CPS-C) 的概念，并分析了为什么 CPS-C 在两个流行的应用程序中优于纯网络中介通信：移动社交网络和移动人群感知。CPS-C 利用其独特的特性（即网络物理同步、人类智能和物理位移）带来好处，包括信息暴露的自然边界、有形的交互、即时瞄准接收器、去中心化和捎带。因此，提高了能源效率和用户体验。我们强调了通信过程中人机智能的存在，这很少被解决。