Demonstrating An Evacuation Algorithm with Mobile Devices
using an e-Scavenger Hunt Game
Jesse Szwedko, Callen Shaw, Alexander G. Connor,
Alexandros Labrinidis, Panos Chrysanthis
In proceedings of ACM MobiDE'09. Pages 49 - 52. (ACM Portal)

Coordinated with workshop organizers, co-authors and other lab members to set up a multiple-laptop demonstration of the RFID Scavenger Hunt game.

RFID Touch-Screen Polls with A. Labrinidis, P. Chrysanthis, CS Day'09, U. of Pittsburgh.

Modified existing Adobe Flash interface, ActionScript code base, PHP code and MySQL database for RFID-powered polling. Adapted interface to support voting for current year's nominees, including posters and industry booths.

QR-Code and RFID Scavenger Hunt with J. Szwedko, C. Shaw, A.Labrinidis, P. K. Chrysanthis, CS Day'09, U. of Pittsbugh.

Modified and improved existing code base, MySQL database and PL/SQL rou- tines (see below) for integration with QR-Code based mobile device interface. Modified and improved algorithms for load balancing and winner selection. Adapted Top-K algorithm to ensure that RFID-only users were not sent to QR-Code-only locations.

RFID Scavenger Hunt with A. Labrinidis, P. Chrysanthis, J. Bonant. CS Day'08, U. of Pittsburgh.

Developed Java user interface for RFID hardware. Designed MySQL database for managing RFID user data. Implemented Top-K Algorithm in MySQL for user routing and load balancing. Guaranteed that each user would not be asked to visit the same vendor twice. Delivered near-uniform distribution of users to CS Day vendors. Designed and implemented algorithm for selecting scavenger hunt winners in MySQL. Implemented simple Java server for announcing scavenger hunt winners.