Just thinking out aloud....
What about a web-cam (maybe a wireless one? Never tried to use
them...) right under the mic, so that it takes a picture of the badge
and shows it on the screen? Everyone (right?) in a meeting has a
badge wit his/her/its :) name and affiliation, so privacy concerns
are just comparable to those of wearing a badge.
Of course, this is not applicable to jabber participants, in that case
you need a different solution.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Henning Schulzrinne
<hgs(_at_)cs(_dot_)columbia(_dot_)edu> wrote:
Yes, a group from my lab did this, using short-range RFID. (The range was
about 1-2 inches.) It required a bit of a setup which made it hard to
replicate at scale, but it worked reasonably well.
Privacy concerns are an issue, but you'd have to be very close to the person
to sense the card (and you can obviously leave it behind any time you'd want
to) - it would be much more convenient to track people using BlueTooth or
WiFi MAC addresses, if you'd be so inclined, or just use video cameras. Yes,
you can use long-range directional antennas to increase your read range, but
those would be rather hard to hide. As was mentioned, the hotel room cards
use very much the same technology, and you can't really leave them behind
when you leave the building.
Henning
On Aug 5, 2013, at 5:15 AM, Dan York <york(_at_)isoc(_dot_)org> wrote:
On the topic of badge-sensing at the mic, I seem to recall that we had this
working at an IETF sometime back in the RAI working groups. It was maybe 4
or 5 years ago and I think it may have been some student(s) under Henning
Schulzrinne at Columbia... but I am not sure about that. I remember that
when you went to the mic you put your badge up to this sensor and your name
appeared in the jabber room. We used it in several of the RAI sessions at
that IETF. Unfortunately I don't remember how well it worked or why it
wasn't continued. There may be someone out there who can provide some
insight. (And if it was Henning's students we can just drop him a note.)
Dan
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On Aug 2, 2013, at 10:26 AM, "Paul Aitken" <paitken(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>
wrote:
I've remotely participated in several IETFs.
I find that the biggest problem with remote attendance is the lack of
visual cues. I've come to realise just how important these are in a meeting.
-are people paying attention, are they interested / confused / distracted /
bored?
Also there's no way for local attendees (in the WG room) to know that
remote attendees are "at the mic" and whose turn it is to speak.
There's been some discussion on the "87attendees" mailer about badge
sensing at the mic - whether QR codes, NFC, or RFID. This could help remote
attendees too.
eg, see what they did with NFC + mic here:
http://www.5thbar.me/blog/2012/09/14/nfc-enabled-badges-at-the-5thbar-mobile-marketing-forum/
P.
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