hope/amd

RFID tracking data collected from the seventh HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference held in July 18-20, 2008. RFID tracking data was collected from the seventh HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference which was held in July 18-20, 2008. Conference attendees received RFID badges that uniquely identify and track them across the conference space.date/time of measurement start: 2008-07-18date/time of measurement end: 2008-07-20collection environment: RFID technology is now ubiquitous. RFID tags are used to track people and their belongings, monitor their behavior, make payments on major transit systems, manage store inventories, and far more. The AMD, or "Attendee Meta-Data", project is an attempt to apply the RFID technology to the seventh HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference, which was held at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City, July 18-20, 2008. The AMD project aims to transparently show that the RFID technology can be used to connect each of the conference attendees with other people so they get a better conference experience.network configuration: RFID is an acronym for "radio frequency identification". In the case of the AMD or "Attendee Meta-Data" project, people can wear a special badge with an RFID "chip" inside which responds to RFID "readers" placed around the conference. The chip can tell the reader where it is, and we can use that to follow people around the conference. The badges, commissioned by Mitch Altman, inventor of TV-B-Gone, expanded on equipment from the Sputnik project, an experiment in RFID tracking at the 24th Chaos Communication Congress held in Berlin last year.data collection methodology: Attendees receive RFID badges that uniquely identify and track them across the conference space. Location information is incredibly accurate - visitors' exact locations and movements are monitored in real time, and used to drive social networking features which completely change the conference experience.sanitization: Private information is either anonymized (e.g., EMAIL, LOCATION) or removed (e.g., PHONE, ROOM_NUMBER).limitation: Due to obvious privacy concerns, it only follows people in the most public areas (such as talk rooms). People who are not on the mezzanine or 18th floor will not be trackable.