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Ching-Ting Chen | Josh Hubanks | Andy Lewandowski | Mauricio Orantes | Xin Wen Trace?mobile app Worksheet 4 What is Your App and What Research Might Emerge from It? Frustrated when you can’t remember where you placed your things? Need to find your car keys, wallet or passport now? Introducing Trace, the mobile app that helps you track down your important personal items. Utilizing cutting-edge RFID and augmented reality technology, Trace helps you locate your missing items in real time. Just pan across any space using your camera-equipped smartphone and in real time you’ll see the locations of your missing items on-screen. You’ll never forget where your things are with Trace! - - - Trace is an augmented reality application for smartphones that allows users to easily and intuitively locate misplaced personal items. The Trace platform consists of two components: A radio-frequency identification (RFID) sticker (hardware) component, and an application (software) component that features augmented-reality technology. The RFID sticker enables users to ‘tag’ personal items prone to misplacement—keys, wallets, TV remotes, etc—by affixing them to the items. Tagged items will then transmit a unique numerical code, which Trace’s software will track/recognize and relay back to the phone screen. The result is something akin to an old-fashioned metal detector. Instead of relying on ambiguous ‘hotter/colder’ aural feedback, though, Trace utilizes a phone’s camera functionality to display, on-screen and in real time, the source locations of intercepted RFID signals, and by extension the locations of misplaced items. Trace was conceived in response to two, mutually exclusive everyday problems: the misplacement of personal items and lapses in short-term memory functions. While these problems are relatively low in severity, they are profuse in their affect and can lead to major inconveniences during everyday life. Furthermore, preliminary research has revealed that very few mo