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Pecan Park Project |
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Pecan Park Project aims at understanding the interaction between wireless mobile computing technologies and underserved urban communities and subsequently optimizing the technologies for these communities. We have finished two field studies using Windows Mobile smartphones and reported the findings in the publications listed at the bottom. We have finished of a one-year field study using iPhone 3GS with 25 participants, started in February 2010. See our HotMetrics'10 paper for details. Updates August 2010: Logger deployed to 10+ iPod Touch users. September 2010: Logged iPhone 3GS deployed to 10 HCC students. February 2011: all data collection finished. April 2012: web usage data released (URL). July 2012: entire smartphone usage data released (LiveLab). Collaborators
Graduate Students (Team RST)
Community Pecan Park is a community is Southeast Houston with 5,000 single-family residences. Click here to see it on Google Map. Since 2003, Technology For All and Rice Network Group (Knightly) have built and maintained an open-access multi-tier multi-hop 802.11 network in Pecan Park. The network currently covers about 3km2 and have seen over 4000 unique users. Click here for more information. Mobile Devices Our research interest is in wireless broadband-ready mobile phones and their applications. Coupled with the open-access wireless network, such phones and their applications provide an unprecedented opportunity for Pecan Park residents to access information technologies with low cost. Our research objectives are multifold, including:
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