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Stage Three: Exploring the Research Literature:
Team Tile Item Finder:
1) Nina Yang (ty172@georgetown.edu)
2) Jing Chen (jc2568@georgetown.edu)
3) Scott Schroeder (sjs298@georgetown.edu)
4) Wenhui Yang (wy99@georgetown.edu)
What is your technology and what problem does it address?
The Tile Item Finder was created to assist users locate and recover commonly misplaced items, such
as keys and wallets. It was designed to reduce time wasted by searching for lost valuables, as well as
save users the cost and inconvenience of replacing those items when they are unable to be located. The
Tile Item Finder uses Bluetooth technology (Bluetooth 4.0) which sends wireless signals between a Tile
tracker device and the user’s I-phone through a Tile app. What distinguished Tile from other item finders
was a ‘Community Find’ feature which uses a social networking strategy to search for a missing item with
the phones of all users running the Tile app, vastly expanding the search range (TheTileApp.com). The
Tile tracker device measures 36mm x 36mm x 4.2mm (about the size of a matchbook). Each Tile account
can manage up to ten trackers.
Discipline One:
Information and Communications Technology
Discipline Two:
Sociology
What questions does this discipline use to investigate the technology?
1. How to improve indoor positioning using
1. Since people can share the location of items
Bluetooth technology?
within their networks, can the Community
2. How effective are vehicle tracking systems
Find system change people’s way of
based on smartphone applications, and how to
interacting with each other?
improve?
2. Is people’s perception of self changing with
3. What security risks Bluetooth technology may
their interaction process?
bring? How could Bluetooth 4.0 devices such
3. What role will society play in the adoption
as Tile eliminate these security risks?
and advancement of Bluetooth item tracking
4. Does Bluetooth 4.0 use a low energy
technology?
technology? Will low energy technology
4. Arguments have been made that
increase security risks?
communications skills have decreased with
younger generations as a result of these
References:
generations spending too much time playing
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video games and burying their heads in cell
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Finder which relies on networks to increase
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effectiveness of the device compel people to
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interact more through face-to-face
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communication to foster the growth of these
collaborative networks?
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2. Muñoz-Organero, M., J. Muñoz-Merino, P., &
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