The team is focused on researching collaborative location-based services that allow participants to share local information that is continuously synthesized into a rich real-time global view that is shared back to the participants.

Research topics

• Privacy issues in location-based services
• Large-scale data aggregation and analysis
• Automotive traffic modeling

Publications

Daniel Work, Olli-Pekka Tossavainen, Sebastien Blandin, Alexandre Bayen, Toch Iwuchukwu, Ken Tracton, and Baik Hoh, "An Ensemble Kalman Filtering Approach to High-way Traffic Estimation Using GPS Enabled Mobile Devices", IEEE Conferences on Design and Control 2008.

Baik Hoh, Marco Gruteser, Ryan Herring, Jeff Ban, Dan Work, Juan-Carlos Herrera, Alexan-dre Bayen, Murali Annavaram, and Quinn Jacobson, "Virtual Trip Lines for Distributed Privacy-Preserving Traffic Monitoring, to appear in ACM MobiSys 2008.

M. Annavaram, Q. Jacobson, J. Shen, "HangOut: A Privacy Preserving Social networking Application," Presented at the International Workshop on Mobile Devices and Urban Sensing (MODUS 2008).

Contact

Quinn Jacobson, Team Leader

Team Members

Toch Iwuchukwu | Ken Tracton | Dave Sutter | Cynthia Kuo