Citation
William Huang, Prabal Dutta. " Unobtrusively Capturing Face to Face Interactions". Talk or presentation, 29, September, 2013; Presented at the First International Workshop on the Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud (SEC'13 @ ESWeek), Montreal.

Abstract
Capturing the spatial and temporal parameters of human interactions allows for better informed disease transmission models. Smart badge type solutions have attempted to capture these parameters, but their real world deployability is minimal. The key problem stems from the unpredictability of mobile neighbors, which makes neighbor synchronization difficult, resulting in either bulky, high powered nodes or infrastructure heavy systems. To bypass this problem we designed an ultra low power ultrasonic wake up and ranging sensor, which can be kept on without significantly affecting battery life. This allows nodes to asynchronously wake up neighboring nodes, eliminating the need for infrastructure nodes and bulky batteries, and enabling the creation of easily deployable sensor networks to capture human interactions.

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• UnobtrusivelyCapturingFaceToFaceInteractions_Huang_SEC13_Montreal.pdf · application/pdf · 18085 kbytes
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• huang_face2face_edge.pdf · application/pdf · 2354 kbytes. (Abstract)

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  William Huang, Prabal Dutta. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/113.html"><i>
  Unobtrusively Capturing Face to Face
  Interactions</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  29,
  September, 2013; Presented at the <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/conferences/13/swarm/index.htm"
  >First International Workshop on the Swarm at the Edge of
  the Cloud (SEC'13 @ ESWeek)</a>, Montreal.

• Plain text

  William Huang, Prabal Dutta. " Unobtrusively Capturing
  Face to Face Interactions". Talk or presentation,  29,
  September, 2013; Presented at the <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/conferences/13/swarm/index.htm"
  >First International Workshop on the Swarm at the Edge of
  the Cloud (SEC'13 @ ESWeek)</a>, Montreal.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{HuangDutta13_UnobtrusivelyCapturingFaceToFaceInteractions,
      author = {William Huang and Prabal Dutta},
      title = { Unobtrusively Capturing Face to Face Interactions},
      day = {29},
      month = {September},
      year = {2013},
      note = {Presented at the <a
                href="http://www.terraswarm.org/conferences/13/swarm/index.htm"
                >First International Workshop on the Swarm at the
                Edge of the Cloud (SEC'13 @ ESWeek)</a>, Montreal.},
      abstract = {Capturing the spatial and temporal parameters of
                human interactions allows for better informed
                disease transmission models. Smart badge type
                solutions have attempted to capture these
                parameters, but their real world deployability is
                minimal. The key problem stems from the
                unpredictability of mobile neighbors, which makes
                neighbor synchronization difficult, resulting in
                either bulky, high powered nodes or infrastructure
                heavy systems. To bypass this problem we designed
                an ultra low power ultrasonic wake up and ranging
                sensor, which can be kept on without significantly
                affecting battery life. This allows nodes to
                asynchronously wake up neighboring nodes,
                eliminating the need for infrastructure nodes and
                bulky batteries, and enabling the creation of
                easily deployable sensor networks to capture human
                interactions.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/113.html}
  }
  

Posted by Christopher Brooks on 29 Sep 2013.