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2009 High School Scholars:Our experience using RCP with students

Deborah Estrin, Cameron Ketcham, and Rakhee Patel, UCLA Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)

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Our Introduction to RCP for Students

• Python/AppEngine/Android tutorials• Sensing the old fashioned way: with a pen and paper• Looking at the space with sensors in mind• Brainstorming ideas for our own Campaign.

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Transportation at UCLA

• Track how people are moving around the UCLA campus• Students went out and gathered data from their own

campaign.

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Resources we have provided

Ubuntu Server:• php • mysql • ftp access • svn • trac • Moin wiki • Wordpress blog

Google resources:• Android• AppEngine

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Projects and Guidance

• Breaking the Norm• WaterBusters• Ketcham• PEIR PM2.5 Validation• Social Wireless Localization• UC Explorers

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•Breaking the Norm

• see how people on the UCLA campus react to certain unusual and unexpected events and/or behaviors.

• Initially they wanted to create more of a social experiment

• We helped them move to more of a data visualization experiment

• Using audio and location data along with tags to visualize the situation

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•WaterBusters

• WaterBusters is a campaign to monitor where water is being misused throughout the LA County area

• Directly using the RCP to develop• Have been updating the blog regularly:

– http://scholars09.cens.ucla.edu/blog

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•Ketcham

• Using the simon says game to determine user's memory recall in different situations

• Originally had more of a social experiment– Collecting data on age, gender, ethnicity

• Guided them to create a project which gathered data about the space people we in rather than the people themselves

• Now collecting data on location and ambient noise level

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•PEIR PM2.5 Validation

• validate PM2.5 values computed by the EMFAC model by comparing them to actual values measured and recorded by the UCB Particle Monitor

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•Social Wireless Localization

• using the wireless technology in tandem with GPS sensors to calculate the localization data for a networked group of devices

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•UC Explorers

• Gathering data on places around campus• Directly using the RCP to develop

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Group Dynamics

• Groups are very different• (talk about groups? And what they are like?)