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CrowdWatch: Pedestrian safety assistance with mobile crowd sensing

  • Qianru Wang
  • , Bin Guo
  • , Ge Peng
  • , Gang Zhou
  • , Zhiwen Yu
  • Northwestern Polytechnical University Xian
  • College of William and Mary

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Abstract

Pedestrians distracted by smartphones are easy to meet with various dangers when crossing or walking on the street. To help them, we propose CrowdWatch, a system that leverages crowd-powered smartphone sensing to make fine-grained characterization of the sensing field and provides context-Aware alerts to pedestrians for their safety. The crowd data including acceleration, orientation, and GPS reflects the behavior of the crowd in three different situations: crossing roads, waiting traffic lights, and encountering obstacles. We present details about applying the behavior of the crowd into the system in this paper. What's more, under different contexts/situations, different reminders are delivered. Experiment results indicate that CrowdWatch is effective in safety dynamics detection.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUbiComp 2016 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages217-220
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450344623
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Sep 2016
Event2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2016 - Heidelberg, Germany
Duration: 12 Sep 201616 Sep 2016

Publication series

NameUbiComp 2016 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Conference

Conference2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2016
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityHeidelberg
Period12/09/1616/09/16

Keywords

  • Crowd Mobility Patterns
  • Mobile Applications
  • Mobile Crowd Sensing
  • Obstacle
  • Pedestrian Safety

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