EE423 Telecommunications Software Applications

Mobile Phone based Sensing Project Groups (Member names are listed alphabetically) Group 1 Joseph Harte Padraig Heavin Matthew Towey Group 4 Fergus Browne Joseph Davies Maebh Malone Conchubair OChormacain Group 2 Connor Carey Ciara Loftus Anjan Mahat YiLing Wang Group 5 Paul Burke Conor Davey Cliona Flood Gerard OLeary Group 3 Stephen Conway David Crocock Sharon McNulty Fionn ODonohue Group 6 Armand Makongo Bono Joseph Fleury Cian Griffin Conor Molloy

Notes: (1) 20% of the overall (full year) TSA module mark will be allocated to this MANDATORY project. The remaining 80% is made up of the Semester 1 and Semester 2 written examination marks (40% each). (2) The projects should immediately and the submission date for the project deliverable will be confirmed later (but will definitely be after submission of final year project reports and possibly after the Summer written examinations are completed). (3) Initial step will require each group to propose a mobile handset sensing application study to me. To this end I have drafted a list of references (below) which I expect the groups to review. Some are web sites and some academic papers but they will give you an overview of what others have already done in this area. In particular, reference [1] provides an excellent overview of the topic. These references should be split between the members of the group with a view to each group submitting to me a proposal for a study before October 19th. This proposal needs to be 1 page in length and it should describe in summary (i) what will be studied (in detail), (ii) why it is a useful study (iii) how this will be measured and (iv) how the gathered data will be analysed or visualised. I will schedule meetings with each group individually in the week starting October 22nd (in the TSA lecture slots) to discuss these proposals. (4) Projects may be based on developing a custom Android application to evaluate some technique, behaviour or algorithm or alternatively utilise tools like funf as a means of studying some cohort of individuals, their behaviour, their environment etc. (5) The deliverables for this project will be (i) a paper describing the project undertaken and the results obtained (this must be structured and formatted in the style of an academic research paper similar to many of the references in the attached. It should be between 6 and 8 pages in length) and (ii) a signed statement as to which members of the group completed what tasks - this will be used in the process of allocating marks to the project group members.

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[1] N. D. Lane, E. Miluzzo, H. Lu, D. Peebles, T. Choudhury & A. T. Campbell, A Survey of Mobile Phone Sensing, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 140-150, September 2010, pp. 140-150 [2] A. Thiagarajan, L. Ravindranath, K. LaCurts, S. Madden, H. Balakrishnan, S. Toledo & J. Eriksson, VTrack: accurate, energy-aware road traffic delay estimation using mobile phones, Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '09), 2009, pp. 85-98 [3] http://traffic.berkeley.edu/ [4] M. Hynes, H. Wang, E. McCarrick & L. Kilmartin, Accurate monitoring of human physical activity levels for medical diagnosis and monitoring using off-the-shelf cellular handsets, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, December 2010 (Online First), doi: 10.1007/s00779-010-0345-1 [5] S. Consolvo, D. W. McDonald, T. Toscos, M. Y. Chen, J. Froehlich, B. Harrison, P. Klasnja, A. LaMarca, L. LeGrand, R. Libby, I. Smith & J. A. Landay, Activity Sensing in the Wild: A Field Trial of UbiFit Garden, Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 08), April 2008, pp. 1797-1806 [6] M. Mun, S. Reddy, K. Shilton, N. Yau, J. Burke, D. Estrin, M. Hansen, E. Howard, R. West, Ruth & P. Boda,PEIR, the personal environmental impact report, as a platform for participatory sensing systems research, Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services (MobiSys 09), June 2009, pp. 55-68 [7] http://urban.cens.ucla.edu/projects/gabagewatch/ [8] E. Miluzzo, N. D. Lane, K. Fodor, R. A. Peterson, H.Lu, M. Musolesi, S.. B. Eisenman, X. Zheng & A. T. Campbell, "Sensing Meets Mobile Social Networks: The Design, Implementation and Evaluation of the CenceMe Application", Proceedings of 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '08), Nov. 2008, pp. 337-350 [9] http://www.sports-tracker.com/ [10] E. M. Berke, T. Choudhury, S. Ali & M. Rabbi, Objective Measurement of Sociability and Activity: Mobile Sensing in the Community, Annals of Family Medicine, July\August 2011, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 344-350 [11] H. Lu, W. Pan, N. D. Lane, T. Choudhury, & A. T. Campbell,SoundSense: scalable sound sensing for people-centric applications on mobile phones, Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services (MobiSys 09), June 2009, pp. 165-178 [12] H. Lu, J. Yang, Z. Liu, N. D. Lane, T. Choudhury & A. T. Campbell, The Jigsaw continuous sensing engine for mobile phone applications, Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 10), November 2010, pp. 71-84

[13] Y. Wang, J. Lin, M. Annavaram, Q. Jacobson, J. Hong, B. Krishnamachari & N. Sadeh. A framework of energy efficient mobile sensing for automatic user state recognition, Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services (MobiSys 09), June 2009, pp. 179192 [14] http://www-scf.usc.edu/~mingli/paper/BIC09.pdf [15] http://www.galwaytraffic.com/ [16] http://ronanbrowne.wordpress.com/