Dear M.B. Gaved & others - Hee is a partial bit of an email I captured - I believe from Carolyn Haythornwaite. Apologies if I have the attribution wrong. ------------------------------------------------------ There are two projects I know of. One is called IKNOW, developed by Nosh Contractor at UIUC. Participants can pre-enter their interests and IKnow
then shows the social networks among them based on their interests.
http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/Projects/TECLAB/IKNOW/
The other is a system called Intellibadge, lead developer Donna Cox, using RFID badges to capture and display co-participation at conferences http://intellibadge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/index.htm
Both are useful for conferences. The Intellibadge requires physical devices, but IKnow does not. --- "M.B.Gaved" <M.B.Gaved@open.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear Reid (and other AoIR'ers)
do you have a contact for the conference organisers? (re: RFID tags). I'd love to find out how the system worked. Can anybody point me at any references to work carried out trying to automatically capture social interactions? RFID or otherwise...
Lots of social as well as technical issues to be considered, as has been pointed out by other posters.
many thanks!
Mark
Mark Gaved Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes, UK MK7 6AA
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/mark
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Dr. W. Reid Cornwell Sent: Fri 8/25/2006 8:08 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] RFID
Barry and Ellis,
For the last year, we have been looking at experimental designs that incorporate RFID.
I attended a conference where the badges were RFID and when I approached someone that shared my interests (logged at registration) the badges not only recorded the data but beeped on both badges to inform us that we were kindred spirits. It was awesome. Can you imagine this for group research?
Reid
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