@inproceedings{8844b2556a6d468c9e2b48c8ba5ebab3,
title = "Poster: Bluetooth low Energy (BLE) beacons alone didn't work!",
abstract = "Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon technology is projected to be the leading proximity technology. Various business sectors are rapidly applying it because of its automatic location sensing capabilities, low cost and high accuracy. However, understanding of how people adopt beacon-based location sensing applications is still very limited. We developed a BLE beacon based system for automating class attendance taking. Our first field study with 42 students showed that about 38% of the students adopted it. Students had several misunderstandings and concerns of the technology that challenged its adoption. We revised the design by integrating a participatory sensing approach, where users can manually check in to their class by explicitly sharing their location using GPS. We conducted a second field study with 45 students under the same instructor in the following semester. The overall adoption of the attendance taking system was increased to 80%.",
keywords = "BLE beacon, Class attendance, Location sharing, Opportunistic sensing, Participatory sensing",
author = "Yun Huang and Qunfang Wu and Yaxing Yao",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Copyright held by the owner/author(s).; 2018 Joint ACM International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2018 and 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2018 ; Conference date: 08-10-2018 Through 12-10-2018",
year = "2018",
month = oct,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1145/3267305.3267634",
language = "English (US)",
series = "UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "62--65",
booktitle = "UbiComp/ISWC 2018 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers",
address = "United States",
}