Academic networking is socio-technically challenging, however, fruitful for researchers' success. We introduce a system to tackle the challenge and facilitate connections of researchers.
Try outFeatures
Profile
Researchers can create a profile by importing their publication records from an academic database and customize their profile to represent their interests.
Search
Our interface supports users to be matched with ones with similar research interests. First, Who2chat uses various signals and information in one's profile to recommend meetings based on the similarity. Second, Who2chat also supports social recommendation, where a user's colleagues can suggest useful meetings to them.
Introduction
Who2chat helps users overcome their fear of approaching others. The interface lets users provide social signals: indicating their interests in meeting particular users and expressing openness to be approached. Who2chat also permits users to ``buddy up'' with friends to approach researchers of interest as a pair, to reduce the stress of approaching a stranger alone.
Meeting
Our interface supports time coordination around meet-ups through real-time indicators to manage meet-up time and graceful conversation-exit. Who2chat also ensures that there are not too many people in the conversation and controls the number of senior and junior members through audience configuration.
Meet the Team
Soya Park
MIT CSAIL
Jaeyoon Song
MIT Sloan
Thomas Malone
MIT Sloan
David Karger
MIT CSAIL