[SOA] counting visitors to exhibits

[Tallman, Nathan (tallmann)]

Lisa,

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.

                https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/reports/suma

You could also use a wifi button<https://flic.io/> 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!

Nathan

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Subject: [SOA] counting visitors to exhibits

Hello,

I am currently investigating ways to count visitors to our archival exhibits throughout the library.
For example, how many people stopped to look at a particular exhibit case during a given time period?

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.

Have a wonderful day!
Lisa Rickey

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