Minglr

About Minglr 
Minglr is an experimental software system developed to explore ways of supporting ad hoc, private videoconferences. We expect it to be useful for virtual conferences and many other kinds of online events, both business and social. See Minglr at https://minglr.info.

People 
Thomas W. Malone
Jaeyoon Song
Christoph Riedl

News  

Diginomica, Ad hoc interactions in the age of virtual work – an unsolved problem. November 18, 2020

Harvard Business Review, Successful Remote Teams Communicate in Bursts. October 28, 2020

Fast Company, Zoom call can be too formal. These alternatives encourage casual chatting. October 6, 2020

MIT Technology Review, Remote workers want to re-create those watercooler moments, virtually. August 17, 2020

Quartz, Water cooler moments don’t have to disappear in the virtual workplace. August 12, 2020 

The Boston Globe, App developed at MIT, Northeastern looks to connect strangers via video chat. August 10, 2020

Techstination, Minglr from MIT researchers to allow better video conference personal interactions, Online interview with Thomas Malone. August 11, 2020 (Reposted segment on Techstination, September 3, 2020)

Rediff.com, What WFH is doing to office ‘time-pass’. September 24, 2020

Beebom, MIT’s New Video-Conferencing Platform is All About “Impromptu Conversations”. August 9, 2020

RemoteWorkerTech, Minglr chat tool aims to bring ‘watercooler’ talk back to remote work. August 7, 2020

News8Plus, Open-source software program overcomes the restrictions of videoconferences by supporting impromptu conversations. August 4, 2020

AiThority, MIT Sloan Creates “Minglr” – An Open Source Skype And Zoom Video Competitor. August 4, 2020

MIT Sloan School of Management, Introducing Minglr: New open source software developed at MIT Sloan helps overcome the limitations of videoconferences by supporting impromptu conversations. August 4, 2020

Publications 

Jaeyoon Song, Christoph Riedl, and Thomas W. Malone, Online Mingling: Supporting Ad Hoc, Private Conversations at Virtual Conferences, ACM Digital Library, May 8-13, 2021.

Jaeyoon Song, Christoph Riedl, and Thomas W. Malone, Online Mingling: Supporting Ad Hoc, Private Conversations at Virtual Conferences, MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper 6159-20, July 2020.