StreetBit: A Bluetooth Beacon-based Personal Safety Application for Distracted Pedestrians

Raiful Hasan; Mohammad Aminul Hoque; Yasser Karim; Russell Griffin; David Schwebel; Ragib Hasan

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StreetBit: A Bluetooth Beacon-based Personal Safety Application for Distracted Pedestrians

Raiful Hasan, Mohammad Aminul Hoque, Yasser Karim, Russell Griffin, David Schwebel and Ragib Hasan

IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Vol.2021, pp.1-2

01/01/2021

DOI: 10.1109/CCNC49032.2021.9369650

PMCID: PMC8449506

PMID: 34545337

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Abstract

The safety of distracted pedestrians presents a significant public health challenge in the United States and worldwide. An estimated 6,704 American pedestrians died and over 200,000 pedestrians were injured in traffic crashes in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [1]. This number is increasing annually and many researchers posit that distraction by smartphones is a primary reason for the increasing number of pedestrian injuries and deaths. One strategy to prevent pedestrian injuries and death is to use intrusive interruptions that warn distracted pedestrians directly on their smartphones. To this end, we developed StreetBit, a Bluetooth beacon-based mobile application that alerts distracted pedestrians with a visual and/or audio interruption when they are distracted by their smartphones and are approaching a potentially-dangerous traffic intersection. In this paper, we present the background, architecture, and operations of the StreetBit Application.

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Title: Subtitle: StreetBit: A Bluetooth Beacon-based Personal Safety Application for Distracted Pedestrians
Creators: Raiful Hasan - Department of Computer Science
Mohammad Aminul Hoque - Department of Computer Science
Yasser Karim - Department of Computer Science
Russell Griffin - Department of Epidemiology
David Schwebel - University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ragib Hasan - Department of Computer Science
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Vol.2021, pp.1-2
DOI: 10.1109/CCNC49032.2021.9369650
PMID: 34545337
PMCID: PMC8449506
ISSN: 2331-9852
eISSN: 2331-9860
Publisher: IEEE
Number of pages: 2
Grant note: ECCS-1952090 / National Science Foundation (10.13039/100000001) DGE-1723768,ACI-1642078,CNS-1351038 / National Science Foundation (10.13039/100000001) R21HD095270 / National Institutes of Health (10.13039/100000002)
Language: English
Date published: 01/01/2021
Academic Unit: Research Administration
Record Identifier: 9984949463702771

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