Sensing, Understanding and Modelling People using Mobile Phones

DISI seminar

Thu Feb 11, 2010 at 11:00

Mirco Musolesi

Mobile phones are increasingly equipped with sensors, such as accelerometers, GPS receivers, proximity sensors and cameras, that can be used to sense and interpret people behaviour in real-time. Novel user-centered sensing applications can be built by exploiting the availability of such technologies in these devices that are part of our everyday experience. Moreover, data extracted from the sensors can also be used to model people behaviour and movement patterns providing a very rich set of multi-dimensional data, which can be extremely useful for social science, marketing and epidemiological studies.
In this talk I will present some of my recent work in this area including the design and implementation of the CenceMe platform, a system that supports the inference of activities and other presence information of individuals using off-the-shelf sensor-enabled mobile phones and allows for sharing this information through social networking tools such as Facebook. Finally, I will briefly discuss how we are using these data to model people activity and movement patterns in the geographical space.

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