I developed the Whereabouts system while working at the University of Michigan. We were just breaking ground on our new computer science building when I completed my master's degree, and we wanted the building to have location awareness capabilities. I stayed on for a few more years as a research programmer, where I led the project to select and implement location awareness technology, and build an infrastructure for using it in a way that protects user privacy.
While working on Whereabouts, I worked with the Accessible Technologies Computing Site to create Talking Points, a navigation system for blind and visually impaired users. The system is now maintained by some very smart and energetic students.
I also worked with using RFID for location awareness. I released the code I used to do this as rfid-perl.
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