Badges with kinds of info on what you do (not just your name)
Names don’t reveal much about people. It would be useful to have a little bit about a person’s background on their badge, so you don’t need to keep on asking for that.
Better yet, maybe they would have a numeric ID on their badge (832), which could be searched on the app/website to learn a lot more about them (via mobile app)
Badges appear very small to someone standing a normal distance away so they can only fit a very small amount of writing. But there’s probably enough room for name + occupation.
There could be things like color coding of dots to indicate what you are looking for. Plus, much of the benefit could be to people very close to them (who they are talking to)
Perhaps we can have badges with QR codes that you can scan with the app on your phone to immediately add the person’s contact info to your address book. Or with precise enough GPS locations (that we’ll have because of the walking meeting idea) we can have an algorithm automatically determine which people you (probably) talked to during the conference based on proximity, setting, context, and length of contact. This could also be done with simpler sensors that just detect proximity.
Badges with kinds of info on what you do (not just your name)
Names don’t reveal much about people. It would be useful to have a little bit about a person’s background on their badge, so you don’t need to keep on asking for that.
Better yet, maybe they would have a numeric ID on their badge (832), which could be searched on the app/website to learn a lot more about them (via mobile app)
If you can look people up by numeric ID, why not just look people up by name? People are better at remembering names and associating them with people.
It’s a fair point, for whatever reason I didn’t think of that. That said, sometimes names are quite long and multiple people have the same name.
Badges appear very small to someone standing a normal distance away so they can only fit a very small amount of writing. But there’s probably enough room for name + occupation.
It was simpler in the old days, when Bakers were bakers and Farmers were farmers.
There could be things like color coding of dots to indicate what you are looking for. Plus, much of the benefit could be to people very close to them (who they are talking to)
Perhaps we can have badges with QR codes that you can scan with the app on your phone to immediately add the person’s contact info to your address book. Or with precise enough GPS locations (that we’ll have because of the walking meeting idea) we can have an algorithm automatically determine which people you (probably) talked to during the conference based on proximity, setting, context, and length of contact. This could also be done with simpler sensors that just detect proximity.