Meme Tags and Community Mirrors: Moving from Conferences to Collaboration

Meme Tags are part of a body of research on GroupWear: a wearable technology that supports people in the formative stages of cooperative work. Conference participants wear Meme Tags that allow them to electronically share memes—succinct ideas or opinions—with each other. Alongside of the person-toperson transactions, a server system collects information about the memetic exchanges and reflects it back to the conference-goers in Community Mirrors—large, public video displays that present real-time visualizations of the unfolding community dynamics. This paper presents results from a proof-of-concept trial of the Meme Tag technology undertaken at a MIT Media Laboratory conference. Keywords groupware, name tag, community, meme, collaboration, wearable computing, infrared communication, interaction design

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: CSCW
• Authors: Richard Borovoy, Fred Martin, Sunil Vemuri, Mitchel Resnick, Brian Silverman, Chris Hancock
• Keywords: CSCW 1998, Meme Tag, Meme Tag Technology, Participants Wear Meme, Social Sciences