[Air-l] tools for social networking at conferences (fwd)

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

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 at 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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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
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