How it Works

1 . Sign up

Sign up for ConfLab by filling in our Informed Consent Form, where you agree to take part and to donating your data for research purposes. Still not sure? Read our FAQ.

2 . Meet the Chairs on Thursday

Our data collection will take place on Thursday from 16:30 to 17:30 at the Rhodes hall. After you arrive, we will check if you agreed to donate your data for research. You fill in a short survey about your research interests and experience with MM. We will give you our newly designed MINGLE Midge to be worn around your neck. After that you are free to meet peers and the conference’s organizational chairs at this event.

3 . Tutorial and Debrief on Friday

Join us in learning more about the science and technology behind ConfLab including discussions on privacy, ethics, & data sharing.

4 . Research and the Future

Your data will help progress research on social interaction analysis in the wild. It will be shared in a pseudonymised form with the research community under an End User License Agreement to be only used for non-commercial and non-governmental research. We also hope to use it for setting future grand challenges.

What data are you contributing?

We will be collecting the following data as part of this event

Acceleration and proximity

Our newly designed MINGLE Midge wearable device records acceleration and proximity during your interactions. Acceleration readings can be used to infer some of your actions like walking and gesturing. It is worn around the neck like a conference badge.

Video

Overhead cameras will mounted to capture the interaction. These videos will be used to annotate behavior and for detection of social actions like speaking or of conversational groups.

Low-frequency audio

The Mingle MIDGE will also record low-frequency audio. This low frequency is enough for recognizing if you are speaking, but not enough to understand the content of your speech, giving us valuable information without compromising your privacy. Example audio: