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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Lisa,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Although it’s not a fully automated solution, you may want to take a look at Suma from NC State. It’s an open-source, mobile-based assessment toolkit. One of their original concepts was a staff person with a
hip attached iPad casually walking around and tapping a large button on the iPad to indicate body counts for usage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> <a href="https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/reports/suma">
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/reports/suma</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You could also use a <a href="https://flic.io/">
wifi button</a> that when pressed adds a count or row to something like a Google Doc, but people (and kids) might press the button more than once; though it could be used be a staff greater. There is some cool research going on with using wifi signals to detect
people through things similar to heatmaps/sonar, even through walls. Perhaps one day that could be used to count persons visiting an exhibition, but I don’t think it’s at that point yet!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Nathan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> ohioarchivists-bounces@lists.oplin.org [mailto:ohioarchivists-bounces@lists.oplin.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rickey, Lisa Pasquinelli<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 07, 2015 11:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'ohioarchivists@lists.oplin.org' <ohioarchivists@lists.oplin.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SOA] counting visitors to exhibits<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am currently investigating ways to count visitors to our archival exhibits throughout the library.
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<p class="MsoNormal">For example, how many people stopped to look at a particular exhibit case during a given time period?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have any experience with sensors or other methods of automatically collecting this data? Any recommendations or advice (including museum listservs where I might also direct this question) would be most welcome.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Have a wonderful day!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lisa Rickey<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"">Lisa P. Rickey</span>, MA, MLIS, CA
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