The campus as a laboratory

SMU has established the LiveLabs Urban Innovation Platform (LiveLabs) to develop mobile computing technologies with a real social impact. LiveLabs’ co-director, Associate Professor Rajesh Balan, shared that the lab’s research outcomes include a passive sensing technology to detect students experiencing stress and depression, an indoor location system that helps organisations track traffic flow through their premises, informing future design plans, and a dynamic group detector that indicates whether people are moving together with intent, delivering potential advertising opportunities.