Title: Social Network Technology to Evaluate and Facilitate Collaboration
1Social Network Technology to Evaluate and
Facilitate Collaboration
- Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland
- Daniel Olguin Olguin, PhD Candidate
- MIT Media Laboratory
- Human Dynamics Research
NIDA International Forum Technological
Innovations to Build International Research
Capacity Quebec City, Canada, June 15-18, 2007
2Human Dynamics Research
Group MEDIA
Wearable Computing
LiveNet
Learning Humans
Reality Mining
Sensible Organizations
3A Brief History of Wearable Computing
- 1268 Earliest recorded mention of eyeglasses.
- 1762 First pocket watch.
- 1966 First wearable computer used to predict
roulette wheels (Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon,
MIT). - 1968 First digital wrist watch.
- 1979 Sony Walkman.
- 1993 Thad Starner starts using his wearable
computer at MIT. - 1997 First International Symposium on Wearable
Computers. - 2003 Motorola introduces a series of wearable
devices - 2007 Nintendo Wiis controller
4Wearable Computing at the MIT Media Lab
2007
1993
5Our Approach
- Social signals
- From speech engagement, emphasis, mirroring,
activity - From body gesture motion, energy, activity
- We have been able to identify
- Central connectors, boundary spanners,
information brokers and peripheral people in a
social network - The boss in an organization
- The leader of a team
- The outcome of negotiations
- The degree of persuasiveness in speech
- Group affiliations
Automatically captured group dynamics
6Real Life Experiments
7Learning Humans
- Techniques for learning human behavior in an
office or social situation. - How to automatically capture and model human
behavior. - Influence modeling of multi-agent interactions.
- Eigenbehavior theory
8GroupMEDIA
- The Jerk-O-Meter Is he paying attention?
- VibeFones that measure tourists interest.
- Measuring persuasion in elevator pitches.
- Predicting the outcome of phone calls in call
centers. - Measuring attraction Does she like me?
9The LiveNet System
- Distributed modular framework
- Commodity PDA/cell phone hardware
- Variety of custom/commercial sensors
- Real-time data streaming
- Resource allocation/discovery
- Local processing for context classification
- Rapid application prototyping
LiveNet a flexible mobile platform that is at
the same time a long-term health monitor,
context-aware agent, multi-modal feedback
interface for proactive healthcare applications
10Non-invasive Sensing
- Movement
- spectral features, energy, orientation
- Voice Features
- energy, pitch, entropy, voicing dynamics
- Temperature/heat flux
- Metabolic activity, environmental cues
- Heart rate
- IBI, HRV measures, spectral ratios
- Skin conductance
- slope analysis, peak detection
- Behavioral
- Location, sleep/activity patterns, socialization
dynamics
BioSense Board
Bluetooth Location Beacon
11MGH Depression and ECT Treatment Study
Clinical Outcomes
Subjective emotion ratings
LiveNet Depression Rig
Physiology correlations (1 day)
Emotion rating correlations
12Other Healthcare Applications
- DiaBetNet
- Wearable computer for diabetic children
- Wearable Monitor for Parkinson Disease Treatment
- Weight management
DiaBetNet Interactive game to monitor blood
glucose levels and make predictions
13Reality Mining
Eigenbehaviors
14Sensible Organizations
Scientific management through sensor networks
Understanding Organizational Dynamics
Using social sensors technology to measure
Creativity
Efficiency
Combining social, physical, and digital
information
Innovation
Productivity
15Sociometric Badges
16Automatically Measuring Organizational Behavior
Experiments in real organizations
- Face-to-face interaction
- Speech features
- Proximity to other people
- Relative location
- Physical activity levels
Sociometric Badge
17Experimental Results
- Personal productivity r 0.33
- face to face - no. of people time
meeting - Job satisfaction r -0.48
- - total communication
- How much work did you do r 0.32
- face to face
- Quality of group interaction r -0.64
- - total communication betweeness
- Email versus face-to-face r -0.55
18Communication Patterns
- Top Face-to-face
- Bottom E-mail
19Thanks!
- For more information visit
- http//hd.media.mit.edu
- or e-mail us at
- dolguin_at_media.mit.edu
- pentland_at_media.mit.edu