ConferenceSense: monitoring of public events using phone sensors

  • Authors:

  • Vigneshwaran Subbaraju;Amit Kumar;Vikrant Nandakumar;Sonali Batra;Salil Kanhere;Pradipta De;Vinayak Naik;Dipanjan Chakraborty;Archan Misra

  • Affiliations:

  • Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore;Indraprashtha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, Delhi, India;IBM Research India, Banglore, India;State University of Newyork, Buffalo, USA;University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;SUNY Korea, Incheon, South Korea;Indraprashtha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, Delhi, India;IBM Reseach India, Delhi, India;Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

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.