Paper Info
Title
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%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3267305.3267634
UbiComp '18: The 2018 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Singapore Singapore October, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
BLE beacon, Opportunistic sensing, participatory sensing, class attendance, location sharing
Beacon,Sensing applications,Check-in,Computer science,Global Positioning System,Location sharing,Attendance,Participatory sensing,Multimedia,Bluetooth Low Energy
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5966-5
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yun Huang1101.60
Qunfang Wu213.40
Yaxing Yao3408.68