MIT Mobile Experience Lab partners with Marriott to test NFC interactive platform
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MIT’s Mobile Experience Lab has partnered with Marriott on a research project that uses technologies such as Near Field Communication (NFC) to encourage genuine interactions between individuals.
The group is developing a social networking platform called Six Degrees. Its prototype, currently in a test lobby at the Marriott Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is designed to allow guests to get to know each other, interact and socialize.
Six degrees of RFID function interactive desktop
The platform includes a mobile app, a wall display and an NFC-enabled interactive table with an embedded NFC node, which can be automatically paired by guests using a mobile device or a pre-programmed ID card.
According to the MIT Mobile Experience Lab, the lab uses Adafruit’s PN532 NFC/RFID controller shield, which uses the PN532 chipset to read and write tags and cards, and its platform prototype also uses an ID card with NXP’s NTAG203 chip.
The data in the Six Degrees Mobile App comes directly from the guest’s first sign-up and login to their LinkedIn account and creates a general profile of the individual based on his or her professional background and personal interests. According to the lab, the platform uses this information to match guests based on what they have in common.
When someone puts his/her phone or ID card on the interactive table, the interactive table can read out personal interests. LED lights light up when two people have something in common at the dining table. The purpose of this interaction is to give people a reason to get to know each other, the lab explained.
The Six Degrees public display platform, located in the hotel lobby, also displays the hotel’s upcoming events, with active users on the platform. More importantly, it visualizes the comprehensive data of the Six Degrees community.
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