Where can participants access applications? Is there a central kiosk?
There is no central kiosk. We have intentionally designed our applications to avoid the asymmetric visibility that a central monitoring station would provide. Our applications are all peer-to-peer in nature (i.e., they do not allow for users with special privileges). The applications can be accessed both from secure mobile and secure web-based interfaces. Thus at any time, any participant can access any application from any web browser or through his or her phone*, he or she has only to login with a user name and password. It should also be added that although our applications are peer-to-peer, we do have several system administrators who may access data to test and debug applications or to extract statistics that support our research. System administrators are members of the RFID Ecosystem research team who are approved to access collected data by directly interfacing with the database. Before deciding whether or not to participate in one of our studies, each prospective participant w
