ConferenceSense: Monitoring of public events using phone sensors

• Main Authors: SUBBARAJU, Vigneshwaran, KUMAR, Amit, Nandakumar, Vikrant, Batra, Sonali, Kanhere, Salil, De, Pradipta, Naik, Vinayak, Chakraborty, Dipanjan, MISRA, Archan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Software Engineering; Systems Architecture
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1959; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2958/viewcontent/ConferenceSense_2013.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We explore the use of a participatory sensing paradigm, where data generated from individual smartphones is used to extract and understand collective properties of temporary public gatherings and events (e.g., concerts & conferences). We focus on the use of this paradigm at a technical conference, and describe the design, implementation and deployment of ConferenceSense, an application that uses multiple sensor and human-generated inputs from attendees' smartphones to infer context, such as the start time of a session or the degree of interaction during a tea break. Based on data collected from multiple attendees at a 3-day conference, we explore how ConferenceSense can be used for monitoring and collecting event statistics, and describe challenges and open questions.