• YouTube link is here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Ji1y6XmrA.
  • Alright this video is pretty abstract.
  • It talks about human signal.
  • What is human signal?
  • If not anything I just found this article instead, http://web.media.mit.edu/~sandy/2010-05Pentland.pdf.
  • This article was from 2010. So that is it means a lot of stuffs from the Sociometric Badge can be rebuild using newer technology?
  • There is this term called "reality mining" using some electronics sensor.
  • 1 thing that make me not quite sure is that how can thing that small have a processing power to process speech? The device itself was made using technology from < 2010. Perhaps using the same technology like the 2010 cell phones?
  • The main initial idea is for the technology to be a wearable technology. A gadget that somewhat embedded into a human body like clothes.
  • There is also smart badge as an alternative to Sociometric Badge, https://www.zebra.com/us/en/products/mobile-computers/handheld/sb1-smart-badge-series.html. Which is somewhat more personally interactive since it has screen.
  • They claim that the smart badge is a affordable solution. But the price is around 300 Euros each, https://www.centralpoint.nl/rfid-mobile-computers/zebra/sb1-smart-badge-art-sb1b-se11a0ww-num-4377437/. Better go with Pebble Watch I guess.
  • All in all I am not sure which one is better for what kind of thing, either the Sociometric Badge or the smart badge from Motorolla.
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  • The first 2 points are already done within MIT.
  • So they want to bring this Sociometric Badge into more applicable case. Of which into how organizational communication works.

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  • Good example of variables those are can be captured via sensors within the Sociometric Badge.

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  • The small IR (infrared) is used to detect whether the communication is face to face.
  • So this means that the user need to know precisely on how to use this Sociometric Badge.
  • There should be a strict guidelines on how to use this badge.

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  • Example of wearables technology those were developed by MIT in the past.

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  • Example of traditional performance scoring system.

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  • Possible applications using data received form the Sociometric Badge.

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  • Example of the smart badge.