Sensing Driver Phone Use with Acoustic Ranging through Car Speakers

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1426-1440

  Yang, Jie ^a   Liu, Hongbo ^a   Chen, Yingying ^a   Sidhom, Simon ^a   Chandrasekaran, Gayathri ^b   Cecan, Nicolae ^b   Gruteser, Marco ^b   Vu, Tam ^c   Martin, Richard P ^d  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Piscataway   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic ranging; bluetooth; car speakers; driver phone use; Driving safety; location classification; smartphone

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008550175     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2012.92     Document Type: Article

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