Meeting Mirror

Basics

The Meeting Mirror is a an application that allows participants of community meetings (e.g. conferences) to use interactive large screen displays to explore the participants of the meeting. The application is an extension to a Web-based meeting/registration platform - ideally one based on the Cobricks Community Platform Toolkit.

The basic idea for the Meeting Mirror was created during the i3 Summer School "Designing for Communities" in Ivrea in 2001, and was extended and implemented in the Applied Informatics and Cooperative Systems Group (M. Koch) at Technischen Universität München in cooperation with the Media Laboratory at University of Art and Design in Helsinki (A. Botero).

The first stage of the Meeting Mirror implements an interactive visualisation of the participant list. The application displays the participants of the meeting with a self-choosen icon and a short user name. By interacting with the large screen users can retrieve more detailed information on a participant (the virtual business card) or search for participants by different attributes. The large screen application is supported with a Web-based registration that provides identity management functionality (possibility to choose which information should be presented on which channel) - alternatively, the identity information can be imported from exiting conference management applications.

A second version of the Meeting Mirror now supports identification of users via RFID tags (in the conference badges) and access to the data using mobile devices.

See more information on different prototypes/demonstrations of the meeting mirror:

• MM at German HCI conference "Mensch&Computer" 2004
• MM in Department of Informatics, Technische Universität München

Upcoming events with Meeting Mirror support are:

• The Engineering of Sport 2006 (ISEA2006), 11-14. July 2006 in Munich

More Information

More information on the Meeting Mirror project and future plans can be found in different publications on the project, e.g. in:

• Michael Koch: Supporting Community Awareness with Public Shared Displays. Proc. Bled Intl. Conf. on E-Commerce, Bled, Slowenien, Jun. 2005.
  PDF (340k)

• Michael Koch, Karlheinz Toni: "Community-Mirrors zur Unterstützung von Community-Treffen". Proc. Workshop GeNeMe2004 - Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien, Dresden, Okt. 2004.
  PDF (127k)

• Michael Koch, Gunther Klein, Andrea Botero Cabrera: "Meeting Mirror - Matchmaking-Unterstützung für Community-Treffen". Proc. Mensch & Computer 2004 - Allgegenwärtige Interaktion, R. Keil-Slawik, H. Selke, G. Szwillus (Hrsg.), München: Oldenbourg Verlag, Sept. 2004.
  PDF (15k)

• Gunther Klein: Design von Kommunikations- und Matchmaking-Unterstützung für Community-Treffen. Master-Thesis, Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Jun. 2004.
  PDF (1778k)

• Michael Koch, Sara Monaci, Andrea Botero Cabrera, Mirjam Huis in't Veld, Patrizia Andronico: Communication and Matchmaking Support for Physical Places of Exchange. Proc. Intl. Conf. on Web Based Communities (WBC2004), Mar. 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 3-10.
  PDF (135k)

More information on the Cobricks (Community Bricks) project can be found at www.cobricks.org.

A collection of future plans and ideas in the context of the Meeting Mirror project can be found in the Cobricks Wiki. There, you also can find a list of Meeting Mirror related projects.