- Coffe machine as a gathering spot canbe used as a tool to increase interactivity and productivity in general in company.
- Track social activity at work.
- For example like.
- How people talks to.
- How people interacts.
- The real intention is to make the company understand them better.
- Later in this article this badge also meant to be a personal benchmark tool to let individual get what he/she wants to achieve.
- There is a physical interface that used data gathered from the Sociometric Badge which is the social coffee robot.
- This coffee robot would see which group need to interact more then hence it arranges something (?).
- I am thinking like a scheduled free coffee coupon or something like that.
- The result from the coffee machine is that those certain group of people have more time to interact hence more collaboration.
- Simple thing is to use RFID chip.
- The creator of this Sociometric Badge could tell where people are in the office by using some RFID chips.
- Additional Bluetooth, infrared, and an accelerometer as well.
- The microphone tracked these.
- How long a person speak.
- How often a person interrupt another person speaking.
- And then the volume of the speech.
- In MIT the technology could be used to predict 85 percent accuracy on who would win in salary negotiation in controlled test environment.
- Achieved similar thing in speed dating.
- So it is indeed the same person who invented the original Sociometric Badge from MIT Human Dynamics group.
- There are 4 kinds of sensors in this Sociometric Badge.
- Bluetooth to scan other devices in range.
- Infrared scanner to detect if a conversation is happening between person.
- Microphones.
- Accelerometer.
- Example case of Sociometric Badge in Bank Of America in term of engagement of social interaction between teammates.
- New keywords here are myopic metrics to reducing cost, KPIs.
- This Sociometric Badge does not record what happened in the bathroom.
- Helping people to understand the big tool.
- Much clear conversation.
- There is something like contract/NDA/TOA (Term Of Agreement) before someone is about to use Sociometric Badge within their office environment.
- So, is this what I meant about data gathering with consent?
- FitBit for your career instead for jogging/running/sport.
- This Sociometric Badge setup what people want to achieve.
- Case examples.
- I actually want this now.
- SMOODLY, adaptable office environment.