Nice, but I
am not sure that we want to make the conference registration lines any
longer.
Would it be useful to just have an approximation for count. e.g. the
door monitor pokes there head into the room at about the half way point
and either counts the attendants or does an approximation based on room
capacity and number of empty seats?
Scott
Gaff, Doug wrote:
How about RFID tags embedded in
the badges…or injected in the
skin when you register. J
Scott, et al,
Counting attendees is a good idea in theory, but not very workable in
practice.
Consider the following difficulties:
- Multiple doors - we try to restrict
inflow to one door, but realistically people use other doors as well.
- People come and go - when do we
count them? Do we count only people who enter? What about people who
leave to go to the bathroom and then return? Double count?
- People who glance in, then decide
not to stay - do we count them?
- And the biggest problem: everyone
streams into the room in about three minutes. Getting an accurate count
of 200+ people coming through the door in three minutes is, um,
probably not realistic.
- Bjorn
but I wonder if it would not be better to focus on getting accurate
counts on
number of attendants for each session with the assumption that if
someone
doesn't vote that they were neutral.
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