K-Hive is a collaboration tool that helps conference participants connect with like-minded individuals by identifying them within the conference environment. It allows for onsite collaboration and contact aggregation through a dedicated device or mobile app. The goal is to reinvigorate serendipitous connections that often get lost due to our precise and targeted interactions in the digital age. Next steps include further developing the interaction model through Amber Krishan's thesis and releasing a mobile phone app or integrated mobile service.

1. K-Hive: Connectivity through social
serendipity
Amber Krishan | MFA DT

2. What is K-HIVE?
Collaboration tools that help conference participants identify and connect with like-minded
individuals within the conference environment.
Onsite collaboration and contact aggregation Profile and contact management through web
through device! interface

3. Impetus
Digital technologies have enabled human Social disconnect…
connectivity across the globe

4. Social serendipity
A chance meeting with someone right next to us can lead to an insightful discovery. How many
such discoveries are we losing out on…

5. Target Users
Conference participants come together to collaborate and share knowledge. Despite the events
and sessions, participants find it hard to make relevant connections.

6. Supporting Research
“Over 80% of people said that seeing friends and meeting new people was the reason they went
to conferences or it was very important. 53% of people said "attendees they want to hang out
with" is the reason they go to conferences.” (Stormy Peters, executive director of the GNOME Foundation)

7. Precedents
Reality Mining ‘Bump’ (iphone application) Vodaphone 360 SpotMe Sociometer
nTag IntelliBadge ActiveBadge Poken Lovegety

8. Prototypes - Dedicated device

9. What's wrong with that?
In "The endangered joy of serendipity" William McKeen bemoans the decrease of serendipity as a
result of precisely directed and targeted media, searching, and interactions.

10. The Challenge - Navigating the Information Cloud
Folksonomy tag cloud - by offering many connections and multiple entry paths simultaneously -
may help rejuvenate serendipity in danger in a world of closely focused lists.

11. Prototypes - Mobile Device

12. K-Hive – User Experience

13. Next Steps
Interaction model
developed through
thesis
Mobile Phone App Integrated Mobile
for The New Phone Service (Dedicated
School device)
CHI 2011 Vancouver

14. Credits
Faculty
Marko Tandefelt (Faculty, Parsons the New School of Design)
Loretta Wolozin (Faculty, Parsons the New School of Design)
Katherine Morawaki (Faculty, Parsons the New School of Design)
Louisa Campbell (Faculty, Parsons the New School of Design)
External Advisors
Jerome Nadel (Executive Vice President Marketing & User Experience, Sagem Wireless, Paris)
Internal Advisors
Benjamin Bacon (Faculty, IT Manager PIIM)
Brian Willison (Director PIIM)
Scott Pobiner (Assistant Professor - Design and Management)
Jane Pirone (Asst. Professor/DirectorCommunication Design & Technology)
Anezka Sebek (Associate Professor of Media Design ,Director, MFA in Design and Technology)
Colleagues
Joe Saavedra (Student, Parsons the New School of Design)
Ira Goldberg (Student, Parsons the New School of Design)
Sayoko Yoshida (UI designer, Parsons Institute for Information Mapping)