contact Larry Johnson at New Media Consortiums. The hosts of the NMC summer conference at UBC collaborated with NMC to create an online conference to go along with the conference. Larry: perhaps you can set up a log on for some of our AoIR colleagues? On Jun 17, 2004, at 9:10 AM, Caroline Haythornthwaite wrote:
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.
/Caroline
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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Kris Markman wrote:
Dear AoIR folk, I'm part of a group of graduate students at the Univ. of Texas working on a consulting project for the organizers of the 2006 World Congress of Information Technology (http://www.wcit2006.org/). One of our projects is to come up with recommendations for technologies that can enhance the social networking of conference delegates during and after the conference. We're looking for ways that different devices and applications (and especially ones that make use of wireless & mobile technology) can help conference delegates track, find and manage contacts and extend face-to-face discussions during the conference, and help them continue networking after they've left.
I'm interested to know if any of you have ever attended or organized a conference (professional, academic, industry, or other) where technology was used in interesting/useful/innovated ways specifically to enhance social networking. I'd like to get an idea of what kinds of things have been done (successfully and unsuccessfully) in the past as we develop our plans for this project.
Please feel free to share your experiences and insights with me off list.
Thanks! -Kris -- ffffff ffffff ffffff ffffff Kris M. Markman, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate Dept. of Communication Studies The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station Stop A1105 Austin, TX 78712-0115 Email: jho-kmm@mail.utexas.edu ffffff ffffff ffffff ffffff
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