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

Ed Lamoureux ell at bradley.edu
Thu Jun 17 10:28:34 PDT 2004


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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> 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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>> 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 at mail.utexas.edu
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