WalkSafe: A pedestrian safety app for mobile phone users who walk and talk while crossing roads

HotMobile 2012 - 13th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wang, Tianyu ^a   Cardone, Giuseppe ^b   Corradi, Antonio ^b   Torresani, Lorenzo ^a   Campbell, Andrew T ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distraction; Machine learning; Mobile phones; Mobile sensing system; Pedestrian

Indexed keywords

DISTRACTION; INITIAL DESIGN; MOBILE PHONE CONVERSATION; MOBILE SENSING; MOBILE-PHONE USERS; MOVING VEHICLES; PEDESTRIAN; REAL-TIME DETECTION; SAVE ENERGY; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; VEHICLE DETECTION;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE PHONES; ROBOTS; SENSORS; SIGNAL DETECTION; TELEPHONE SETS;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

EID: 84860311063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2162081.2162089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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