TWITTINT

Abstract

<p>Layered Sensing is a technology being developed at the Air Force Research Laboratory in which layers of sensors that are capable of sensing physical things are integrated to create a common picture. This Twitter project explored the use of Twitter as yet another sensor except instead of physical sensing, it conducts social sensing or the mood of a region. This knowledge can be useful for emergency responders to know the state of the survivors dispersed around the disaster zone to quickly get a sense of which region is deemed to be more dangerous or scary to the population. This project was organized and conducted at the Wright Brother's Institute TecAEdge Discovery Lab as a collaboration of AFRL and WSU to give students an opportunity for "experiential learning" under AFRL's Academic Leadership Pipeline Scholarship (ALPS) program.</p><p>This presentation occurred at the Wright State University Campus-Wide Celebration of Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities on April 16, 2010</p>