After the match: mobility and first dates

Matchmaking has moved online. More and more people actively seekromantic partners using specialized dating websites. Afteridentifying potential partners on the Internet, “onlinedaters” invest considerable time, effort and emotion gettingoffline setting up activities, locations and times to meetface-to-face. And once offline, daters spend a lot of moneyexploring the potential for compatibility with people met online.While online dating services have optimized the profile-basedsearch and match component of “matchmaking”, few offersupport for the time-consuming and potentially nerve-wrackingprocess of planning those first face-to-face meetings. Thisresearch sketch introduces an ongoing project aimed at helpingpeople who meet online connect offline.