Social Interactions at the VIVO 2012 Conference

This application was submitted (and won) the VIVO Conference Apps competition at the VIVO2012 conference. Conference attendees used their smart phones to scan QR codes on each other's name badges.

These intereactions gave the those who scanned someone's name badge a list of research terms extracted from that user's publications (via VIVO-ontology aware web crawlers) or terms that the scanned user manually entered. These scan interactions were recorded and later used to create a map showing the social network of the conference's attendees who participated. [284 scan events between 61 active users over 2 days]