Presented at
The Last HOPE (2008),
July 18, 2008, 2 p.m.
(60 minutes)
The Attendee Meta-Data (AMD) project is a large scale study of the movement, demographics, participation levels, and interests of HOPE conference attendees over the three day conference period. At registration, preregistered attendees and others on a first-come first-serve basis will receive a numbered badge with an active RFID chip and a unique PIN. They will take the badge number and PIN to a terminal, or to the internal website via their own laptop, choose a username, log in, and fill out a web survey querying biographical and interest-based data. As attendees move around the entire conference area, their presence will be tracked and their movement information will be compiled in a database alongside their contextual data. All this information will be funneled into a real-time data visualization. During the conference, attendees will be able to query the database and generate their own visualizations and data comparisons, play games based on timing and location, and find others with similar interests during game sessions. In this talk, the AMD project development team will discuss the concepts involved and answer questions about the system.On the last day of the conference during our closing ceremonies, the team will address the project's original goals, the results obtained during the conference, and what was learned throughout the whole process.
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aestetix
as Aestetix
Aestetix was born and raised in Galt's Gulch and spent his early years spanning the continent in a trireme avoiding the barbarians. As the black squares faded away, he made his way to New York, where he can now be seen begging for change in Times Square and playing with interest tagging on the side.
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Christopher Petro
Christopher Petro is a New York City based software architect. He has been AV coordinator for the HOPE conferences since 2000.
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Matt Joyce / openfly
as Matt Joyce
Matt Joyce is a cofounder of Make:NYC (http://www.makenyc.org) as well as a member of NYC Resistor (http://www.nycresistor.com). A systems engineer by trade, and sometime developer/pen tester, he has been a member of the New York City hacking community since the late 90s.
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Dementia
Dementia does IT systems administration and consulting for medium to large sized firms for their Windows and Unix based systems. He is also interested in electronic music and he likes to explore the city in his free time.
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Echo
Echo hails from New York City. He enjoys long walks in the local arcade with cute geek girls, not to mention sexy coding sessions in any language. And ladies, yes, he is single.
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NeoAmsterdam
NeoAmsterdam: n., mixed etym.; programmer that isn't; master of the splice block; have Newton will travel. B.F.A., M.C.A; en_US-NYC, es_AR-BUE, es_CL-SCL; Bash, BASIC, C99, CSS, [La]TeX, Logo, [X]HTML. see also 66.39.128.24, 0113-1141, 0194-357X, 1-881957-24-1, 0-201-37937-6, and 0-8143-3203-X.
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Daravinne
Daravinne is a designer, hacker, and artist who has been a member of the 2600 community since 2002. She resides in New York City.
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LexIcon
LexIcon is an editorial photographer working in New York. He helped found Carolinacon and is managing several projects for The Last HOPE including the NOC NOC, HOPE Radio, and the Attendee Meta-Data project.
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