Social resonance: balancing reputation with tangible design

  • Authors:
  • Alyssa Wright;Pattie Maes;Hiroshi Ishii

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA;MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA;MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

New forms of tangible systems can be designed to leverage the strengths, and bridge the discrepancies, of reputation systems. This paper presents the ongoing design of a tangible reputation system, Social Resonance, that uses a wearable device to merge face-to-face interaction with online networking. Like its virtual counterparts, this system aims to make explicit the perspective of anonymous actors. Yet unlike online reputations, this system is negotiated through real-world action and signals. We present an overview of the system, including potential opportunities and related work, and conclude with future steps for analysis.