A system for tracking and visualizing social interactions in a collaborative work environment

This paper presents our work on indoor tracking and demonstrates its capacity as a data collection system for the study of socio-spatial interactions that occur in a collaborative work environment. Deployed at a recent week-long international design workshop, our system was able to track the movements of more than fifty people from various roles, and generate live visualizations. In this paper we will present the data collection system and the system configurations, the complete dataset collected and sample visualization scripts to stimulate further research in the area of people interaction study and its relation to spatial usage.