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Sociometers: Measuring Group Dynamics

Sociometers: Measuring Group Dynamics. Sociometric badges: Using sensor technology to capture new forms of collaboration, Kim et al., 2012. The New Science of Building Great Teams , Alex “Sandy” Pentland , 2012. People Analytics, Ben Waber , 2013. Secret Signals, Mark Buchanan, 2009.

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Sociometers: Measuring Group Dynamics

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  1. Sociometers: Measuring Group Dynamics

  2. Sociometric badges: Using sensor technology to capture new forms of collaboration, Kim et al., 2012 The New Science of Building Great Teams, Alex “Sandy” Pentland, 2012 People Analytics, Ben Waber, 2013 Secret Signals, Mark Buchanan, 2009

  3. What is a Sociometer? Microphones: Speech Bluetooth: Proximity Infrared: Face-to-face Accelerometer: Movement

  4. What do they measure? • Voice and Conversation Patterns • Individual: Pitch, volume, emphasis • Group: Turn-taking, dyadic engagement, conversation flow • NOTE: By default, they do not record raw audio • Postural Movement • - Individual: Activation • Group: Mimicry  Influence • Network Interactions • - When and where face-to-face connections happen

  5. Sociometers & Management Research • From salary negotiations to job interviews to sales pitches • Honest Signals, Pentland, 2010 • Another Idea: Turn-taking and Affect • E.g.: Is turn-taking in boss-subordinate meetings predictive of post-meeting affect?

  6. Sociometers & Management Research • Relating conversational turn-taking to group intelligence: • Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups, Woolley et al. 2010 • Another idea: Vocal Engagement and Status Differences • E.g.: How do conversational & physical mimicry contribute to the development of team cohesion and coordination?

  7. Sociometers & Management Research • Using network information as a measure of social capital: • Measuring social capital in creative teams through sociometric sensors, Glooret al., 2012 • Another Idea: Influences on Informal Network Changes • E.g.: How do patterns of informal interaction between different departments change after a physical relocation?

  8. How Do I Use Them? • Put on correctly, turn it on • Sociometers record data • Turn it off • Import data into Sociometric Solutions proprietary software: DataLab • Export to excel file • Process excel file into usable data using computer coding } Easy for participants! Minutes

  9. Image 1: Sample Speech Profile Tab from Export File

  10. Karren Team Meeting: 2:10 p.m., June 27, 2013 Speaking Length Average speaking length (seconds): Balance 0.4 Karren S 1.2 Speaking Listening A 2.3 7.2 M Your average speaking segment length much less than the average (2.8 s) for your group and generally short. You spoke 4% of the time, which is extremely low. Pacing Engagement Your contributions appear evenly spaced throughout the conversation but are very infrequent. Volume Your engagement with your other team members appears slightly unbalanced. Minutes A M S 34% 43% 23% Image 2: Sample Beta-version Sociometric Feedback Report You are talking more quietly than the rest of your group.

  11. Are Sociometers Reliable? Valid? • Conversational Scene Analysis, Basu, 2002 • Toward a Social Signaling Framework: Activity and Emphasis in Speech, Stoltzman, 2006 • Currently analyzing validation data of the speech detection and attribution feature

  12. Figure 1: Differences Between Human and Sociometer Speech Recordings Table 1: Correlations Between Human and Sociometer Speech Recordings

  13. What Do I Need? • Sample Data – the data may look different than you expect, this will allow you to gauge usefulness for your project • Coding Resources – the data in the output files is not ready to be analyzed and to prepare it manually would be impeding • Time • For Training - before any data collection, you should plan to devote at minimum a month to become familiar with the process • For Piloting – to know what how environmental factors may affect your data, pilot testing should be done before each project

  14. Thank you!

  15. APPENDIX

  16. Sources • T. Kim, E. Mcfee, D. OlguinOlguin, B.Waber, A. Pentland. Sociometric badges: Using sensor technology to capture new forms of collaboration. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2012. • A. Pentland. The New Science of Building Great Teams. Harvard Business Review, April 2012. • M. Buchanan. Secret Signals. Nature, January 2009. • B. Sheridan. A Trillion Points of Data. Newsweek, March 2009. • B. Waber. People Analytics. Pearson Education, Inc. 2013. • J.L. Lakin and T.L. Chartrand. Using Nonconscious Behavioral Mimicry to Create Affiliation and Rapport. Psychological Science, 2003.

  17. Sources (cont.) • A. Pentland. Honest Signals. The MIT Press. 2010. • A.W. Woolley, C.F. Chabris,A. Pentland, N. Hashmi,T.W. Malone. Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups. Science, 2010. • P. A. Gloor, F. Grippa, J. Putzke, C. Lassenius, H. Fuehres, K. Fischbach, D. Schoder. Measuring Social Capital in Creative Teams Through Sociometric Sensors. Int. J. Organisational Design and Engineering, 2012. • S. Basu.Conversational Scene Analysis, Doctoral Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002 • W.T. Stoltzman, Toward a Social Signaling Framework: Activity and Emphasis in Speech. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006

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