Visible and Controllable RFID Tags

Marquardt, N., Taylor, A., Villar, N. and Greenberg, S. (2010)
Visible and Controllable RFID Tags. In Video Showcase, DVD Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - ACM CHI'10. (Atlanta, Georgia), ACM Press, 6 pages, April 10-15. Video and paper, demonstrated live at CHI. See also the companion full paper above published at CHI.

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Abstract

Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags containing privacy-sensitive information are increasingly embedded into personal documents (e.g., passports and driver's licenses). The problem is that people are often unaware of the security and privacy risks associated with RFID, likely because the technology remains largely invisible and uncontrollable for the individual. To mitigate this problem, we developed a collection of novel yet simple and inexpensive alternative tag designs to make RFID visible and controllable. This video and demonstration illustrates these designs. For awareness, our tags provide visual, audible, or tactile feedback when in the range of an RFID reader. For control, people can allow or disallow access to the information on the tag by how they touch, orient, move, press, or illuminate the tag (for example, Figure 1 shows a tilt-sensitive RFID tag)

Bibtex entry

@INPROCEEDINGS { 2010-VisibleControllableRFIDTags.CHIVideo,
CLASS = { VIDEO },
AUTHOR = { Marquardt, N. and Taylor, A. and Villar, N. and Greenberg, S. },
TITLE = { Visible and Controllable RFID Tags },
BOOKTITLE = { Video Showcase, DVD Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - ACM CHI'10 },
YEAR = { 2010 },
MONTH = { April 10-15 },
PAGES = { 6 pages },
PUBLISHER = { ACM Press },
NOTE = { Video and paper, demonstrated live at CHI. See also the companion full paper above published at CHI },
ADDRESS = { Atlanta, Georgia },
}