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  • Coffe machine as a gathering spot canbe used as a tool to increase interactivity and productivity in general in company.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • The result from the coffee machine is that those certain group of people have more time to interact hence more collaboration.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • "Who talks to whom.".

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  • So it is indeed the same person who invented the original Sociometric Badge from MIT Human Dynamics group.

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  • 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.

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  • Example case of Sociometric Badge in Bank Of America in term of engagement of social interaction between teammates.

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  • New keywords here are myopic metrics to reducing cost, KPIs.

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  • This Sociometric Badge does not record what happened in the bathroom.

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  • Helping people to understand the big tool.
  • Much clear conversation.

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  • 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?

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  • FitBit for your career instead for jogging/running/sport.
  • This Sociometric Badge setup what people want to achieve.

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  • Case examples.
  • I actually want this now.

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  • SMOODLY, adaptable office environment.

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