SocialSense: A System For Social Environment Awareness

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SocialSense: A System For Social Environment Awareness

Robert S. Brewer, Samuel R. H. Joseph, Guanghong Yang, Neil Scott, Daniel SuthersUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa

Department of Information and Computer SciencesLaboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies

Ubiquitous Wireless Applications Group

Devices that Alter Perception Workshop 9/20/2008

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Introduction We pass by others throughout our day•Walking around campus•Conferences•Restaurants and bars

Sometimes we want more interaction w/others

Hypothesis:•Unfamiliarity is barrier to interaction•Learning about others could increase interaction

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SocialSense Explore profiles of nearby users•Sense proximity by Bluetooth, WiFi•Match sensor data to user profile•Display status information (Twitter)•Users choose to link profile with devices

Unobtrusive display and input•Obtrusive system would hamper interaction

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Wearable Implementation Scans for nearby Bluetooth devices•Only devices in discoverable mode

User interface•HMD for constant viewing•“Magic Ring” for unobtrusive input•Displays nearby devices•Select device to see owner’s profile & status

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Wearable App Demo

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Wearable Results System is obtrusive•Attracts stares walking around campus•HMD displays are still too obvious

Switch to mobile phone platform•Devices are ubiquitous and unobtrusive•Now awareness is the problem

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Phone Implementation Runs on iPhone•No Bluetooth access•Switch to WiFi sensing on shared access pt

Displays profile data•Profile pulled from LinkedIn social network

Still working on awareness•iPhone doesn’t allow background processes•Requires sensed user to also run SocialSense

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Phone screenshots

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Future Work Evaluation methods•Looking for ideas to test original hypothesis

Other sensing methods•Working on face recognition from photo

Privacy•Need to prevent stalking•Notify those being detected?

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Mahalo (Thank You)Contact Author:Robert Brewer

Research Assistantrbrewer@lava.net

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences Laboratory for Interactive Learning Technologies

(LILT) Ubiquitous Wireless Applications Group

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Extra Augmented reality•Registering profile information on image