Consider as well: - ntag.com - IR based "name tags" tracks who you meet (and have met) and suggests things you may have in common with your interaction partner. - spotme.ch - RF based PDA style device allows users to fill out a profile and get informed when people interested in similar topics are "near". - Marc ====================================== Marc A. Smith Research Sociologist Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group http://netscan.research.microsoft.com http://www.research.microsoft.com/~masmith masmith@microsoft.com -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@aoir.org] On Behalf Of David Tannenbaum Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 6:12 PM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Re: tools for social networking at conferences (fwd) SubEthaEdit is a useful (and fun) tool that that lets several people work on a single text document at the same time, in real time. Participants could use it to collaborate on a written record of a conference session, note taking, commentary, etc. It can also be used as a flexible chat room. I've used it very effectively in a small wi-fi network to provide a record of an international treaty negotiation (see http://www.public-domain.org/node/view/42#transcript) The major downside is that it only runs on Macs. http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/

Message: 1 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:10:52 -0500 From: "Caroline Haythornthwaite" <haythorn@uiuc.edu> Subject: [Air-l] tools for social networking at conferences (fwd) To: "AoIR" <air-l@aoir.org> Message-ID: <001f01c45485$aa5be830$991e7e82@D9447B11>

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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Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu); www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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