MIT Badges Track Real- date Social Interactions

January 30th, 2008 | Category: Gadget News

MIT researchers created special “badges” for attendees at a recent Media Lab event. The badges “use an infrared sensor to gather info about FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIONS, a wireless radio to gather notes regarding proximity to other badges and send it to a central computer, an accelerometer to track motion of the participant, and a microphone to monitor speech

patterns.” A nearby computer created a real-time social graph during the event, showing who interacted with whom, and for how faraway. The graph was publicly displayed. Researchers said that simply showing individuals their “networking patterns” is abundant to get them to change them. For example, they may learn they interact only with public they already know.

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